Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist

NHS; Croydon; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health service provider in Croydon is seeking a committed consultant psychiatrist to lead clinical care in the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The ideal candidate will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring holistic treatment for patients up to one year postnatal. Applicants must have a valid UK medical registration and relevant experience in psychiatric medicine. Flexible working arrangements are offered.

Qualifications

• Achieved grade or experience in psychiatric medicine required.
• UK professional registration necessary for practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and consultant input on care.
• Participate in Clinical Governance frameworks.
• Take responsibility for patient assessments and treatment plans.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental health assessment

Team collaboration

Education

Medical degree

Job description

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.

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. The community psychiatrists also see some women are seen for preconception advice, when they have past history of moderate to severe mental illness and want to conceive and require possible advice on their risk of relapse, their care, their medication plan and the potential impact on the developing foetus.

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 develop 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

• To Provide Clinical Leadership and Consultant input into Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
• To participate in the framework of Clinical Governance as it develops in Psychological Medicine CAG and across the trust.
• To 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, integrating a biological, psychological and social holistic treatment plan.
• To deliver on the quality and outcomes set by the PMOA directorate care pathways
• To provide RC and section 12 responsibilities under Mental Health Act to patients where necessary or appropriate

Person Specification

Degree Essential

• Achieved grade / experience

Desirable

• Achieved grade / experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.