Consultant Psychiatrist - CMHT Lewisham

Maudsley Learning; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Consultant Psychiatrist to join their Personality Disorder service in London. This part-time role offers the chance to lead clinical initiatives and provide expert care to patients with complex mental health issues. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality service delivery while contributing to the development of innovative care models. With flexible working options and a commitment to staff development, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the field of mental health.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous pay and pensions

Career development opportunities

Car lease benefits

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register with CCT or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide Consultant input to the Personality Disorder service and SUN project.
• Supervise the Core Trainee on their 6-month placement.
• Assist with diagnosis, medication reviews, and management plans.

Skills

Psychotherapy

Clinical Leadership

Communication Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Crisis Management

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Higher degree in medical education or clinical research

Job description

Main area Psychiatry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Fixed term: 6 months (From 19th May 2025) Hours Part time - 7 sessions per week Job ref 334-LEW-7072542-JA-A

Site Top Floor, Wallace Centre, Clarence Rd, London SE8 3BX Town Lewisham Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata Closing 12/05/2025 23:59

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) is looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, Consultant Psychiatrist/Medical Psychotherapist to join our Personality disorder (PD) service within the London Borough of Lewisham. This is a six month fixed term post (paternity cover)

The post is a 7 PA post, ideally divided as 5 PA for DCC and 2 PA for SPA

The LPDS was established in September 2020.

It is a specialist Tier three psychotherapy service for patients with Personality disorder.

The service assesses and treats patients with an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and other moderate-severe personality disorders. Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder are excluded, as are those dependent on drugs or alcohol, or those who are severely underweight (BMI below 18.5).

For further details, please refer to attached advt.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will divide time within the developed specialist Lewisham PD service and also provide Clinical Supervision of the SUN Project.

Apart from taking on a clinical role, the post holder will also undertake a leadership role and work closely with the Head of service in establishing the service and maintaining all aspects of governance.

The post holder will need to be flexible and adaptable to both working with and leading developments in the service.

The postholder will supervise the Core Trainee on their 6 month placement. The CT is integral to co-facilitating SUN, processing referrals, and managing medical or pharmacological issues in the service.

The Specialist PD Service is based at The Wallace Centre, Deptford. The post-holder will have office accommodation. You will not only have the opportunity to work closely with the MDT within your own service but also to liaise and meet with your consultant peers and other staff in Lewisham.

For further details, please refer to attached JD.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide Consultant input and contribute as member of the clinical leadership team of the Personality Disorder service and SUN project.
• Provide Consultant input to triage system for referrals into Personality Disorder service as required.
• When acting as Approved Clinician to take consultant responsibility and oversee assessment and management of patients, including medication regimes, advising and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team. ·
• Assist with diagnosis, medication reviews, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and self-help plans for patients with complex mental health problems..
• Work with Personality Disorder service to develop a collaborative care model for patients with disorders falling within the remit of the team.
• Provide clinical assessments of patients as necessary. ·
• Provide follow up as necessary for clients within teams.

For further details please refer to the attached JD.

Person specification

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register with CCT or equivalent, in Psychotherapy or dual CCT in Psychotherapy and General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months of doing so
• Approved clinician status and under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Experience in other relevant specialties such as general adult psychiatry (inpatient and community settings)

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-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 the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Psychotherapy experience
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• MBT or TFP qualification, knowledge, experience and skills.

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training. Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development Participated in research or service evaluation. Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post. Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Reflected 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 quality improvement projects leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Hugh Williams Job title Associate Medical Director Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02032286393 Additional information

Lead clinician for Community services, Dr Dominic Cottrell;

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N1 service lead, Mrs Nicole Kaunda, [e-mail]