Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A NHS foundation trust in Greater London is seeking a senior clinician to provide consultant level assessments and support patient care in the Joshua Ward. Responsibilities include ensuring quality improvement in service delivery and leading a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have experience in clinical leadership and be committed to enhancing patient care. This role offers a chance to contribute to both service development and collaborative work with community teams.

Qualifications

• Commitment to improving patient care quality.
• Experience in clinical leadership and multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Ability to supervise and coordinate resident doctors.

Responsibilities

• Provide RC cover and consultant level assessments.
• Support safe early discharges from inpatient units.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues.
• Contribute to service development within Joshua Ward.

Job description

The role includes providing the RC cover, focusing on consultant level assessment of any new admissions that have taken place, actively supporting an effective interface between the ward, HTT and the community teams to facilitate safe early discharges from the inpatient unit, actively engaging with the relevant community teams, providing clinical leadership for the MDT on the ward, leading ward and management rounds and undertaking relevant reviews of inpatients, supporting the bed management processes and maintaining high quality care for the patients on the ward.

Team

Joshua ward has a full multi-disciplinary team. In addition to the inpatient consultant psychiatrist the medical team consists of:

• 8 WTE higher trainee doctor (0.2 working in the community team)
• 1 WTE core trainee
• 0.8 to 1 WTE GPVTS trainee (depending on rotations)

The ward has an average of 15 admissions per month. There is management support from the Associate Clinical Director (Dr Victoria Cohen), who reports to the Clinical Director (Dr Olivier Andlauer).

Responsibilities

• Contribute as a senior member of staff to service development within Joshua Ward
• Offer consultations, assessments & appropriate treatments to people living in City & Hackney and requiring a hospital admission.
• Develop close links with other Acute Wards and Community teams, including newly established Neighbourhoods Mental Health Teams.
• Work with service users to develop service user input to service delivery and development.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues, notably resident doctors.
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and the implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

Mission & Values

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Recruitment Information

Closing date: 4th January 2026
Interview date (AAC panel): 20th January 2026

This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026.