A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.The Trust is seeking a full time consultant psychiatri.....
A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
The Trust is seeking a full time consultant psychiatrist for St Helier Hospital Liaison Psychiatry. This is an established post. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the retirement of the current consultant.
This post is for 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week.
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and dynamic consultant psychiatrist to join this effective, friendly and rewarding service.
If you are a dynamic established consultant psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding Approved Clinician and S12 approval under the Mental Health Act. or a specialist trainee within six months of inclusion on the Specialist Register and would be keen to be involved in developing and expanding the service, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Closing date: Thursday 29th February 2024(midnight)
Assessment date: Monday 25th March 2024
Interview / AAC panel date (via MS Teams): Tuesday 26th March 2024
Job Ref: 294-MEDI-0341-UF
The Consultant Psychiatrist will work with the other Liaison Consultant, Dr Sentil Soubramanian, to provide senior cover to the hospital wards and the Accident and Emergency Department, whilst working within and jointly clinically supervising the Liaison Team. During daytime hours, the team sees patients above 18 years in all wards and departments, including the Emergency Department and Clinical Decisions Unit.
The St Helier Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been well established over a number of years, having successfully expanded since 2015 to a 24/7 service, recruiting a number of substantive new clinicians over the last two years, including a second consultant and a pharmacist. The Older Adult Psychiatry specialists are integrated with the clinicians providing services to working age adults. This model ensures that colleagues in the general hospital have a single point of referral, and that expertise in old age psychiatry and general adult psychiatry are shared within the team. All liaison staff are expected to work with patients across the whole age range.
We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
• Eye examinations
• Looking after your health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
• Free gym membership
St Helier Hospital has approximately 530 beds and is situated close to the Merton and Sutton borough boundary, in Greater London. Approximately 1/3 of the acute admissions are Merton residents, and 2/3 are Sutton residents.
We look forward to receiving your application.
• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with, and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their service line.
• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team
• Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
• Domiciliary visits as required.
• Providing cross-cover for the Consultant colleagues where necessary.
• Management of complex cases
• Allocation of resources, in collaboration with the team manager, to service users and carers.
• Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Jan 2024
