Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director (ICT)

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in England is seeking a qualified Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director to join their Vincent Square Adult Eating Disorders Team. This part-time clinical role offers an optional 4PA Clinical Director position. Candidates will provide essential clinical leadership, develop treatment pathways, and ensure high-quality care for patients. Experience in mental health and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams is crucial. A competitive salary ranging from £109,725 to £145,478 per annum is offered for this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience in psychiatric services.
• Proven capability in leading teams and managing complex cases.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for the Intensive Community Treatment and day patient services.
• Develop and evaluate treatment pathways with MDT leads.
• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments for new referrals.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychiatric assessment

Collaboration with MDT

Understanding of eating disorders

Education

Consultant Psychiatrist qualification

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director

One clinical role, two options. We are looking for a consultant to join our Vincent Square Adult Eating Disorders Intensive Community Treatment & Day Patient Services Team.

The role is a part-time 6PA clinical post, but for those looking for the next step in their career there is the option of adding the 4PA Clinical Director of the Eating Disorders Service to the clinical post.

The clinical role with the Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) and Day Programme caters for patients who need more intensive input than outpatient therapy alone, but less intensive than inpatient.

Intensive community treatment has been developed over recent years to provide a community alternative to day patient and inpatient treatment. It has been designed as an adjunct to outpatient treatment, providing brief intensive focus on behaviour change to support medical stabilization and weight, in order to avoid admission.

The day patient service offers a specialist multidisciplinary approach, delivering individualised care and treatment, with well-integrated pathways for transition with inpatient and outpatient/community services. The mainstay of treatment is the therapeutic group programme and therapeutic milieu supporting change in eating disorder behaviours and maintenance factors.

AAC Date : 10 February 2026

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership for the intensive community treatment (ICT) and day patient services.
• To provide psychiatric and medical input to the care of ICT and day patients.
• To develop and evaluate treatment pathways in collaboration with MDT leads.
• To provide ED liaison for ICT and day patients admitted to medical wards.
• To provide clinical leadership to the referral and assessment pathway.
• To provide comprehensive psychiatric assessment for new referrals to VSEDS.
• To work closely with MDT colleagues across the service line to ensure patient centred care, smooth and timely patient transitions between teams, and good working relationships with colleagues.
• To work closely with external stakeholders, including the NL AED PC, to ensure equity of access and well-integrated care pathways for all patients and their families.
• Cross cover and collaborative working with CYP and Adult consultant colleagues.
• Active membership of the VSEDS Care Quality Group.

Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service (VSEDS) was established in 2002 and has developed significantly in size and scope over the last 19 years. The majority of services are provided at South Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Unit (SK&C MHU), with an out-patient facility at Roxborough Road in Harrow.

The directorate provides a range of specialist services for children, young people and adults with Eating Disorders (ED) across 5 London Boroughs for children and young people (CYP), 8 London Boroughs for adults, and national referrals are accepted for adult inpatient care.

Specialist community CYP ED services are provided for the Boroughs of Westminster, Kensington, & Chelsea, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. Comprehensive (secondary and tertiary) adult services across community, day patient and inpatient levels are provided for the Boroughs of Westminster, Kensington, & Chelsea, and Hammersmith & Fulham, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon, whilst tertiary level services are provided for the Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Ealing and Hounslow have a secondary level service in the neighbouring West London Health Trust (WLHT) providing outpatient treatment for adults with mild to moderate eating disorder (ED).

CNWL is a nationally leading NHS Foundation Trust providing Mental Health, Community Health and Child Health Services across London and the South East of England.

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum (pro rata if less than full time)