Consultant in General Adult Inpatient Psychiatry (PICU)

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in London is looking for a full-time Consultant in General Adult Inpatient Psychiatry. The role involves providing clinical leadership and inpatient care to patients, supervising medical staff, and participating in service evaluation projects. Ideal candidates will possess a Primary Medical Degree and be on the Specialist Register. The position offers a salary of £109,725 to £145,478 per year, including London weighting.

Qualifications

• Experience in acute psychiatric settings.
• Proficient in risk assessment and management.
• Experience with the Mental Health Act.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in inpatient care.
• Supervise and train resident doctors and medical students.
• Participate in departmental quality improvement projects.

Skills

Assessment and treatment of mental disorders

Working in multidisciplinary teams

Risk assessment and management

Teaching medical students

Communication and interpersonal skills

Education

Primary Medical Degree

Inclusion on the Specialist Register

Full GMC Registration

Higher degree (MSc, LLM, MD or PhD)

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in General Adult Inpatient Psychiatry (PICU)

The closing date is 19 October 2025

CNWL are now looking for a permanent full-time Consultant Psychiatrist within a 12-bedded Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit dedicated to the treatment of female patients experiencing the most acute phase of their mental illness.

This post is a full time, 10 sessions per week, replacement post on Shannon Ward, at St Charles Hospital Mental Health Unit within the Kensington & Chelsea borough.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality inpatient care

Supervision, teaching and training of resident doctors, 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 local CCG 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 are integrated health and social care services. These are based at:o St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards; two adult PICUs, 4 adult acute wards and two Older Adult wardso Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy serviceso South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with the liaison service, health psychology, therapies team, memory service, older and younger adult psychiatric liaison serviceso Early Intervention Serviceo Home Treatment Team (HTT)o Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)o Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapieso RE-FOCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities to include:

The post holder will have principal duties to provide clinical care to patients admitted to Shannon Ward. They will be supported by the MDT team that include a Middle Grade doctor, two Trust Grade doctors (core level equivalent), Occupational Therapist, activity coordinator as well as pharmacist and psychologist.

The post holder will provide joint leadership with the ward manager, for the performance culture of the ward, ensuring best practice is employed across the ward, and that the Trusts quality and productivity targets are met.

The post holder will adopt a pragmatic leadership style as a way of promoting this type of ward environment, 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 undertake any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.

Together with the Matron and ward manager the post holder will provide overall clinical leadership for the Ward Multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations for the Team, including the following: Medical input, consultation and clinical leadership to the ward, and overall clinical responsibility for patients admitted to the unit. Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for patients subject to the care planning (CPA) process. Responsible Clinician with responsibilities of attendance at and report-writing for Mental Health Tribunals and Managers hearings. Regular clinical liaison with the Acute wards, Community Consultants in the forensic services & Community Mental Health Teams and the Home Treatment Team to ensure timely progress towards discharge of patients.

Teaching Commitments to include:

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 as part of their psychiatric experience. Support is also given to work experience students when applicable.

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

We have four local tutors who support the trainees in the area of Kensington Chelsea and Westminster. All resident doctors in training will meet with their tutor regularly, attend the Resident doctors meeting with local Consultants and management and attend a Balint group.

Person Specification

Educational and professional qualifications

• oPrimary Medical Degree
• oInclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)
• oSection 12 MHA Approved
• oAC approval
• oFull GMC Registration
• oHigher degree (MSc, LLM, MD or PhD)
• oManagement and leadership training.
• oManagement qualification and/or extensive knowledge and expertise acquired through training and experience up to doctoral level.

General knowledge/experience & core skills

• oExperience of assessment and treatment of mental disorders in an acute psychiatric setting/PICU
• oExperience of working in multidisciplinary teams
• oProficient in risk assessment and management.
• oExperience of use of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act in an inpatient psychiatric setting
• oEvidence of completed clinical audit projects
• oEvidence of undergraduate and postgraduate trainee teaching
• oExperience of working on a forensic psychiatric setting
• oExperience of service development/business planning
• oCompleted research projects
• oPublications in peer-reviewed journals
• oHigh level knowledge of planned developments at a national level to improve efficiency and deliver quality services
• oExperience of teaching non-medical staff/carers

Other attributes

• oGood communication and interpersonal skills
• oSound organisational skills
• oEvidence of evidence based medicine training, teaching and implementation
• oTraining and experience of relevant therapies
• oDemonstration 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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a year(plus £2,162 London weighting per annum pro rata)