Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Psychiatry – Ward and Locality Team

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits within a forward-thinking healthcare provider for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist. This role involves joining a dedicated team in Enfield, focusing on the assessment and treatment of working-age adults facing acute mental health challenges. With a commitment to improving mental health care, the organization offers a supportive environment where your expertise will shape clinical pathways and enhance patient outcomes. You'll lead a multi-disciplinary team, supervise trainees, and engage in vital management activities, all while enjoying a generous recruitment and retention package. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health services, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Recruitment and Retention Premia of £20,000

Relocation package of up to £8000

Qualifications

• Full Registration with the GMC with a current licence to practise.
• Experience in managing clinical complexity and uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Supervise psychiatry trainees and ensure safe service provision.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to manage clinical complexity

Decision-making based on evidence

Teaching and training

Education

MB BS or equivalent qualification

Qualifications in medical education or clinical research

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

Job summary

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Enfield Acute Adult Services based in Enfield. The role is a split post between one of the acute wards (Suffolk ward or Sussex ward) and one of the Locality Teams (North or South). These services care for working age adult patients with regards to assessment and treatment. Please refer to the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications within it. We welcome applicants who would like to work part-time as well. This post has been submitted for approval to the Royal College of Psychiatrists and this is awaited at present. A generous Recruitment and Retention Premia of £20,000 is applicable to this post (conditions apply) linked to the in-patient role of this job. A relocation package of up to £8000 is also available for this post. Interviews will take place 2-4 weeks after the applications have closed.

Main duties of the job

These posts are available as full-time posts and would offer 10 Programmed Activities per week - 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity (SPA). The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team(s), further development of the service(s), and the development of clinical pathways and priorities.

The post-holder will supervise two psychiatry trainees - ST4-6 and CT1-3 trainees once they have taken up the substantive role from the next trainee rotation. Prior to a trainee doctor being allocated, there will be locum agency or trust appointed doctors in these 2 posts to ensure safe service provision and continuity of care.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Date posted

10 April 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-BEH-2524

Job locations

The Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital

The Ridgeway

Enfield

EN2 8JL

Job description Job responsibilities

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working in close collaboration with the ward manager and other senior clinicians in the team.

The ward is a female only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years and above. It serves all of North Central London so whilst patients will be primarily from Enfield, some will be from Barnet or Haringey and on occasion from Camden or Islington. The ward provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse. Some patients may have treatment resistant psychosis including severe negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase Farm Hospital.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MB BS or equivalent qualification

Desirable

• Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Open Dialogue Training
• Additional clinical qualification

Eligibility

Essential

• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
• Approved clinician
• Section 12 Approval

Desirable

• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Transport

Essential

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using biopsycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including Wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service 31 the contribution of others
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA

Desirable

• Wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and lifelong learning

Essential

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement
• Participated in research or service evaluation
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
• Has actively participated in clinical audit/quality improvement programmes

Desirable

• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Information Technology Experience & Skills

Essential

• Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet

Desirable

• Experience in data gathering and management

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address: The Chase Building, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield, EN2 8JL

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/