Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist inKingston inKingston PUBLISHED
THU 23 JAN 2025
Key responsibilities include overseeing day-to-day clinical care, conducting risk assessments, managing complex cases, and ensuring the delivery of effective, recovery-focused mental health services. The role requires strong medical leadership within a multi-disciplinary team, availability for urgent reviews during normal working hours, and cooperation with social care and other partners. Kingston Hospital is located in a picturesque area near London, providing a supportive environment for both staff and patients.
Job Title: Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
Contract: Substantive
Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week
Site: Kingston Hospital
We are seeking a full time consultant liaison psychiatrist for Kingston Hospital. This is an established post. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the planned relocation 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.
The Consultant Psychiatrist will work with the other Liaison Consultant 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 Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been well established over a number of years. 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.
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.
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.
About us
Kingston Hospital is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
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