Consultant in General Adult Community Psychiatry

Job summary

CNWL are currently looking for a full time permanent Consultant Psychiatrist, to provide input to a high functioning Community Mental Health Team as part of a multi-disciplinary service (North Kensington Mental Health Hub -CMHH).

The North K&C Community Mental Health Hub (NK&C CMHH) is based at Hathaway House. This is a fairly new purpose-built building for community mental health services. The North K&C CMHH is based on the ground floor.

The team is multi-disciplinary and well resourced. It consists of two PCNs (Neohealth PCN and Westhill/Inclusive PCN). The North Hub team's caseload is around 600-700 patients (300-350 per PCN). It receives on average 25-30 new referrals per week and approximately around 100-120 patients are transferred back to primary care per month.

*Job Description pending Royal College approval*

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality care in North Kensington & Chelsea community mental health team.

Supervision, teaching and training of junior medical staff, medical students, specialist nurses, other nurses and other MDT staff.

To participate actively in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Care Quality, and service evaluation projects.

About us

Kensington and Chelsea is an inner London area with a mixed, diverse population with some of the most wealthy and most deprived areas of London. There is a high mental health morbidity and the North west London ICB is committed to a high spend on mental health services. Kensington and Chelsea (K&C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults across the age range within the community and in hospital settings.

These services are based at:

1. St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards: two adult PICUs, four adult acute wards, two Older Adult wards and Mental Health Crisis Assessment unit (MHCAS)
2. Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy services
3. Older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services based at South Kensington site, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with health psychology services
4. KCW Early Intervention Service
5. K&C Home Treatment Team (HTT)
6. Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)
7. Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapies
8. Re-FoCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House

Date posted: 22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £2162 London weighting per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

333-J-KC-C-0014-B

Job locations

Hathaway House, 7F Woodfield Road, London, W9 2BA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core Clinical Responsibilities:

The post holder will have principal duties to provide clinical care to Kensington and Chelsea patients under Westhill/Inclusive PCN. They will be supported by the MDT team that includes a Specialty doctor (full time), and 1 GPVTS, as well as other professionals such as pharmacist, psychologists, occupational therapists and employment specialists.

The post holder will provide joint leadership with the manager, for the performance culture of the team, ensuring best practice is employed, and that the Trusts quality and productivity targets are met. They will promote good clinical care for all patients for both their mental health and physical health.

The post holder will adopt a pragmatic leadership style, thus ensuring collaborative working both at a clinical and an operational level.

The post holder will be expected to participate in Quality Improvement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to support any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.

Together with the team manager and Neohealth Consultant colleagues, the post holder will provide overall clinical leadership for the North K&C Community Mental Health Hubs multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations for the Westhill/Inclusive PCN.

Management Responsibilities:

The post holder will be a member of the Medical Staff Committee of CNWL.

The post holder will be expected to take part in various committees and project teams relating to service developments. This will be done in discussion with the Borough and Clinical Directors.

Teaching Responsibilities:

An active role in the postgraduate teaching programme, which consists of a local academic meeting on Wednesday lunchtime. This meeting includes a Journal Club and case presentations.

Teaching of medical students who regularly attend ward rounds and community MDT meetings as part of their psychiatric experience. Support is also given to work experience students when applicable.

Supervision of the junior doctors allocated to the team. This must meet Royal College of Psychiatrists standards of clinical and educational supervision.

Person Specification

Educational and Professional Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration
• Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)
• Section 12 MHA Approved
• AC approval

Desirable

• MRCPsych (or equivalent)
• Higher degree (MSc, LLM, MD or PhD)
• Management and leadership training
• Management qualification and/or extensive knowledge and expertise acquired through training and experience up to doctoral level.

General knowledge/Experience & Core skills

Essential

• Experience of assessment and treatment of mental disorders in an acute psychiatric setting
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
• Proficient in risk assessment and management.
• Experience of use of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act in an inpatient psychiatric setting
• Evidence of completed clinical audit projects
• Evidence of undergraduate and postgraduate trainee teaching

Desirable

• Experience of service development/business planning
• Completed research projects
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• High level knowledge of planned developments at a national level to improve efficiency and deliver quality services
• Experience of teaching non-medical staff/carers

Other attributes

Essential

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Sound organisational skills

Desirable

• Evidence of evidence based medicine training, teaching and implementation
• Training and experience of relevant therapies
• Demonstration of ability to innovative practice and service improvement

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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Hathaway House, 7F Woodfield Road, London, W9 2BA

Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work