Consultant in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in Croydon is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist within its Mental Health Learning Disabilities Team. The role involves clinical care, outpatient services, and making a significant contribution to local healthcare for individuals with learning disabilities. This position is integral to the mental health service and aims at improving care delivery and patient outcomes, fostering best practices in therapeutic management.

Qualifications

• Must be GMC registered with license to practice.
• Eligible for inclusion in Specialist Register.
• Experience in managing patients with intellectual disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care as the Responsible Clinician.
• Conduct outpatient clinics and home visits.
• Lead the Multi-Disciplinary Team in treatment evaluations.

Skills

Assessment of mental health

Management of learning disabilities

Team leadership

Education

GMC registration

CCT in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities

Higher degree (MD, PhD)

Job description

Job summary

Pending College Approval

We are seeking to appoint a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist within the Croydon Mental Health Learning Disabilities Team for 6 PAs per week. The is a new post; created to meet local service needs. This is one of two consultant posts in the team.

Croydon MHLD is a specialist community mental health team for adults with a confirmed diagnosis of learning disability. It has a total caseload ranging between 115 and 125 patients. The service delivers patient contact in multiple modalities, including outpatient clinics, remote virtual consultations as well as community and home visits. The team has strong links with local children and adult mental health services as well as Croydon University Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The primary duties of this 8 PA consultant psychiatrist post is to provide clinical care for the patient on the caseload as the Responsible Clinician. The post holder will conduct outpatient clinics and home visits, attend CPA reviews, and carry out liaison work with GPs, multi-disciplinary colleagues from the Croydon Community Learning Disability Team and other mental health services. The post holder will provide clinical cross cover for the other Trust MHLD consultants and vice versa. The post holder will be employed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

About us

The Trust delivers Mental Health in Learning Disabilities (MHLD) services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon. These underwent revision and modernisation to ensure a flexible local service response and to make best use of expertise across boroughs. The Trust's MHLD services are linked with the Estia Centre, which is a training, learning and development hub for staff as well as a resource for adults with learning disabilities and additional mental health needs.

Our MHLD and wider neurodevelopmental services, were rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission.

Details Date posted

09 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

Depending on experience £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

334-CRY-7108257-JA

Job locations

1st Floor, Monks Orchard House, Bethlem Royal Hospital

Monks Orchard Road

Beckenham

BR3 3BX

Job description Job responsibilities

To provide expert assessment of mental health in people with learning disabilities.

2) To provide patients, referrers and carers with diagnostic and management advice;

3) To promote and develop best practice in the management of adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems, locally, regionally and nationally;

4) To make contemporaneous clinical notes on the electronic patient record system employed by the Trust and adhere to Trust/service requirements for electronic record keeping, including prompt verbal and written clinical and medico-legal communications;

5) To lead the MDT in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment options, including liaison with the patient, carers and the wider multi-disciplinary team;

6) To appropriately escalate patients at risk to the Dynamic Support Register, which is led by the local Integrated Care Board.

7) To facilitate admission and discharge pathways of patients with learning disabilities who require mental health admission, either into adult mental health wards or into specialist inpatient services, working with the MDT, patients, carers, referrers and commissioners to ensure effective processes and good communication;

8) To act as a resource within the service and directorate, offering advice and support to colleagues to ensure safe and evidence-based practice

Job description Job responsibilities

To provide expert assessment of mental health in people with learning disabilities.

2) To provide patients, referrers and carers with diagnostic and management advice;

3) To promote and develop best practice in the management of adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems, locally, regionally and nationally;

4) To make contemporaneous clinical notes on the electronic patient record system employed by the Trust and adhere to Trust/service requirements for electronic record keeping, including prompt verbal and written clinical and medico-legal communications;

5) To lead the MDT in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment options, including liaison with the patient, carers and the wider multi-disciplinary team;

6) To appropriately escalate patients at risk to the Dynamic Support Register, which is led by the local Integrated Care Board.

7) To facilitate admission and discharge pathways of patients with learning disabilities who require mental health admission, either into adult mental health wards or into specialist inpatient services, working with the MDT, patients, carers, referrers and commissioners to ensure effective processes and good communication;

8) To act as a resource within the service and directorate, offering advice and support to colleagues to ensure safe and evidence-based practice

Person Specification Qualifications & Training Essential

• GMC registration/revalidation and license to practice
• GMC registration/revalidation and license to practice (E) Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 3 months of gaining CCT
• CCT/ CESR in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities

Desirable

• Higher degree such as master's degree, MD or PhD

Experience Essential

• Section 12 (2) approved
• Eligible to take up / existing Approved Clinician status
• Experience in diagnosing and managing people with Intellectual Disabilities with / without neurodevelopmental disorders / impairment of behaviours and coexisting mental health problems
• Commitment to the development of excellence in services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and coexisting mental health problems

Desirable

• Experience in leading the development of services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and coexisting mental health problems
• Previous experience at Consultant level of working in specialist mental health and / or integrated services for adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Management/Audit/ Quality Improvement Essential

• Experience in organisation and delivery of services for people with Intellectual Disabilities with / without coexisting mental health problems, with / without impairment of behaviour
• Ability to plan and supervise clinical and quality improvement projects and to translate findings into practice to improve quality
• Skills in negotiating with senior staff and other professional groups
• Skills in chairing and / or contributing to multiagency clinical meetings

Desirable

• Skills in proposing and implementing service development /transformation / improvement projects

Teaching Essential

• Skills in providing teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level to medical staff and other professional groups
• Skills in providing clinical supervision to medical and non-medical staff

Desirable

• Evidence of 'training the trainer' or equivalent for provision of educational supervision to psychiatric trainees

Person Specification Qualifications & Training Essential

• GMC registration/revalidation and license to practice
• GMC registration/revalidation and license to practice (E) Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 3 months of gaining CCT
• CCT/ CESR in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities

Desirable

• Higher degree such as master's degree, MD or PhD

Experience Essential

• Section 12 (2) approved
• Eligible to take up / existing Approved Clinician status
• Experience in diagnosing and managing people with Intellectual Disabilities with / without neurodevelopmental disorders / impairment of behaviours and coexisting mental health problems
• Commitment to the development of excellence in services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and coexisting mental health problems

Desirable

• Experience in leading the development of services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and coexisting mental health problems
• Previous experience at Consultant level of working in specialist mental health and / or integrated services for adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Management/Audit/ Quality Improvement Essential

• Experience in organisation and delivery of services for people with Intellectual Disabilities with / without coexisting mental health problems, with / without impairment of behaviour
• Ability to plan and supervise clinical and quality improvement projects and to translate findings into practice to improve quality
• Skills in negotiating with senior staff and other professional groups
• Skills in chairing and / or contributing to multiagency clinical meetings

Desirable

• Skills in proposing and implementing service development /transformation / improvement projects

Teaching Essential

• Skills in providing teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level to medical staff and other professional groups
• Skills in providing clinical supervision to medical and non-medical staff

Desirable

• Evidence of 'training the trainer' or equivalent for provision of educational supervision to psychiatric trainees

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

1st Floor, Monks Orchard House, Bethlem Royal Hospital

Monks Orchard Road

Beckenham

BR3 3BX

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

1st Floor, Monks Orchard House, Bethlem Royal Hospital

Monks Orchard Road

Beckenham

BR3 3BX

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)