The post-holder will be responsible for training psychiatry trainees and engaging with medical students from St George's University, while also contributing to initiatives aimed at reducing ethnic disparities in mental health care. Applicants should be GMC-registered and possess S12 approval or be nearing eligibility as a high trainee. Responsibilities include patient assessments, treatment planning, risk management, and liaising with other healthcare professionals. The ideal candidate will be dedicated to delivering effective, recovery-focused mental health care through collaborative and structured team dynamics.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Central Wandsworth & West Battersea IRH based at Springfield Hospital, London SW17. The role is being offered as 10PAs on a substantive basis, plus an optional extra 1PA for a 2 year fixed term period (worth an extra £18-25k over two years) to develop and deliver additional expertise and special interests in line with our community services or Trust needs.
The CWWB IRH provides care for working age adults who live in the Wandsworth and experience severe or enduring mental illness. The IRH is one of four within the borough, with care provided according to GP/PCN alignment. The post sits within a well-established MDT including a Specialty/Specialist doctor as well as this post. It works closely with 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.
Our Trust services are transforming and integrating as part of the country wide community mental health NHS transformation programme. In Wandsworth the Trust is also involved in the Ethnicity and Mental Health Improvement Project (EMHIP); a collaborative project involving SWLSTG Trust, South West London Integrated Care System and networks of BME voluntary, faith and community groups, convened by the Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN). It's aim is to reduce ethnic inequalities in access, experience and outcome of mental health care.
The post-holder will work alongside a full-time specialist doctor and will be clinically responsible for providing high quality clinical leadership and psychiatric care to patients under the care of the team, lead on the training of core and higher psychiatry trainees in the team, and contribute to the teaching of St George's University of London Medical Students. The postholder will work closely with a Team manager, an advanced clinical practitioner and a dedicated Clinical Service Manager for the Borough. Supervisory support is available from the Associate Clinical Director for Wandsworth as needed.
If you are a dynamic and established consultant psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding S12 approval under the Mental Health Act or are a high trainee within nine months of being eligible for this grade, we would be delighted to hear from you.
About us
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 patients 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
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