Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Croydon; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist for the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The role involves clinical leadership, support for multidisciplinary teams, and a commitment to high-quality, evidence-based care for patients. Applicants should have experience in perinatal psychiatry and excellent clinical skills. Salary ranges from £109,725 to £145,478 per annum with additional London allowance.

Benefits

London Allowance

Flexible working conditions

Qualifications

• Experience in perinatal mental health care essential.
• Strong clinical leadership skills and multidisciplinary team experience.
• Ability to work flexibly within a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and consultant input to the Mother and Baby Unit.
• Ensure quality of care and patient advocacy in perinatal psychiatry.
• Participate in clinical governance and support the development of services.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Risk Assessment

Team Collaboration

Perinatal Psychiatry Knowledge

Education

Medical Degree

Relevant Psychiatry Qualifications

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist

The closing date is 20 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has risen for a substantive, 5 PA consultant psychiatrist post at the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The successful candidate will work with other multidisciplinary members of the Mother and Baby Unit and linked perinatal community services across South London and Maudsley and The South London Partnership, as well as nationally, to deliver high quality, safe, excellent, evidence-based care. The post holder will support service innovations, quality improvements and clinical research, education in perinatal psychiatry within SLaM, sharing strong clinical leadership within the team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed consultant psychiatrist to work in a leading national Mother and Baby Unit, providing flexible clinical leadership and consultant responsibility and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team including an existing consultant. The post holder will provide clinical work specifically in the Mother and Baby Unit in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting new Consultant post with the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The post is to work alongside another consultant. The caseload and clinical responsibility will be split equally between the two consultant psychiatrists. The consultant psychiatrist has the overall responsibility, to lead the overall care of the patient and their baby and family, integrating biological, psychological and social aspects of assessment, investigations and treatment. The post holder will work alongside the multidisciplinary team. The MBU provides both local and national services to mothers who have a range of psychiatric disorder, diagnosed during pregnancy, or the postpartum period, up to the infant being approximately one year old.

About us

The Trust is committed to improving the work experience of all employees under 'Making SLaM a Great Place to Work'. There are different streams of work being developed to address different aspects of this as well as work to improve the consultant experience led by the Medical Director and open to interested consultants.

Job responsibilities

Duties of this post:

• Provide Clinical Leadership and Consultant input into Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
• Participate in the framework of Clinical Governance as it develops in Psychological Medicine CAG and across the trust.
• Take consultant responsibility for patients on Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, assessment of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate investigation and treatment plans.
• Deliver on the quality and outcomes set by the PMOA directorate care pathways
• Provide RC and section 12 responsibilities under Mental Health Act to patients where necessary or appropriate
• Reviewing patients on the case load on a regular basis and in line with changes in new ways of working as they develop within local services
• Provide intensive and expert intervention and management of acutely ill patients under the care of the team.
• Work flexibly with the other consultants in the Mother and Baby Unit and across the community boroughs, to ensure good transitions of care for patients delivering at Lewisham University Hospital and living in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Croydon, South London Partnership and more widely.
• Offer advice and provide clinical and educational supervision to the CT and ST residents in the Perinatal Team.
• Offer expert risk assessment and management skills
• Promote and advocate for the principles and practice of Perinatal Psychiatry in the local and national arena
• Work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti-discriminatory practice

Person Specification

• Achieved grade / experience
• Achieved grade / experience

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital

£109,725 to £145,478 a year Per annum plus £2162 London Allowance

Permanent

Full-time