Specialist Grade Psychiatrist - Central Wandsworth & Battersea CMHT
A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the Central Wandsworth & West Battersea CMHT in the heart of South West London as a Consultant Psychiatrist.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated General Adult Specialist Grade Psychiatrist to work in the Central Wandsworth & West Battersea CMHT in the heart of South West London
The teams provide care for working age adults who live in the Wandsworth and experience severe or enduring mental illness. The CMHT is one of four within the borough, with care provided according to GP/PCN alignment. The post sits within a well-established MDT that works alongside a separate Consultant-led Assessment team and interfaces with a consultant-led Home Treatment Team and in-patient wards.There are also specialist teams for Early Intervention in Psychosis, and Personality Disorder.
As a Trust we are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
Successful candidates who are looking to progress their career towards consultant will be supported to progress via the CESR route.
Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available *terms and
The post-holder will work alongside a full-time consultant and will be responsible for providing high quality psychiatric care to patients under the care of the teams, contribute to the training of core and higher psychiatry trainees along side the Consultants as lead, and will also contribute to the teaching of St George’s University of London Medical Students.They will work closely with a Team managers, an advanced clinical practitioner and a dedicated Clinical Service Manager for the Borough. Supervisory support is available from the Team Consultant and Associate Clinical Director for Wandsworth.
If you are a dynamic and established specialist psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding S12 approval under the Mental Health Act or are a specialty doctor within six – nine months of being eligible for this grade, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Closing date: Sunday 13th October 2024 (Midnight)Interview date: TBC
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.- Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
- Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with the Consultant Psychiatrists and other teams (around referral and liaison) and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their borough or service line.
- Delivery of the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Teams
- Attending weekly clinical team meetings and performing medical duties that are decisions of that meeting
- Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
- Compiling a patient’s history from a number of sources, and preparing case summaries and discharge summaries
- Compile reports for MHRT and attend on behalf of RC when this deemed appropriate (CTO patients).
- To take part in the discharge planning, CPAs and advising primary care colleagues.
- Liaising with other clinical teams within and outside the trust
- Liaising with general practitioners and medical specialists with regards the physical health of the patients
- Undertake urgent psychiatric assessments when necessary.
- Domiciliary visits as required.
- Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plans
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Oct 2024