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General Adult Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist – Turner Ward

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Ilford

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GBP 80,000 - 120,000

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Job summary

A healthcare trust in Ilford is seeking a General Adult Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist for Turner Ward. This 10 PA role involves providing clinical leadership, direct patient care, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates must be included in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry and demonstrate leadership skills in managing diverse patient populations. The position offers opportunities for additional PAs and professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working options
Health & Wellness initiatives
Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

  • Mastery in managing a broad range of mental disorders in older adults.
  • Experience in managing culturally diverse patients.
  • Working with interpreters and translators.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct clinical care to patients.
  • Demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership.
  • Facilitate positive outcomes through communication.

Skills

Leadership skills
Excellent communication skills
Cultural competence

Education

Inclusion in Specialist Register for Psychiatry

Job description

Go back NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

General Adult Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist – Turner Ward

The closing date is 24 August 2025

Adult Consultant Psychiatrist on an adult male acute Mental Health Ward (Turner Ward), based at Goodmayes Hospital, Ilford.

This 10 PA position has been redefined following a review of our inpatient provision and reorganisation of our inpatient unit. It is currently filled by a locum consultant. It offers 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs), however, there are options to add additional PAs as a special clinical interest or further SPAs to the job plan increasing the total to 12 PAs.

The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.

Aim of the role:

The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust's Values in their day-to-day work.

? We are kind

? We are respectful

? We work with our communities

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. You will work clinically with patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with crisis and home treatment teams, community mental health colleagues; and our partners in care such as primary care, social and acute health care colleagues

The post holder will have clinical responsibility for the care of men admitted to Turner Ward primarily from the borough of Havering. There may occasionally be patients from the other boroughs also admitted to Turner ward, and the consultant psychiatrist may be required to manage or contribute to the care of these patients care in addition.

About us

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people. We are committed to delivering thebest careto the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

We have an excellent reputation for research and quality development, this encouraged innovation, better ways of working and improved delivery of care. Joining us will offer you access to training opportunities, Continuing Professional Development, peer support groups, and a robust appraisal system. We can also offer professional mentoring and leadership training to suit your career stage and encourage your development.

Career Development and training

Just & Compassionate Culture

Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellness initiatives

11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

Retail Discounts

Flexible working and agile working

Cycle to work scheme

Job responsibilities

Leadership:

  • The post holder is encouraged to develop services, participating in business planning and clinical leadership within the Unit and the wider directorate or pathways of care.
  • Demonstrate leadership skills to deliver effective team working and the maintenance of internal and wider relationships throughout the Trust and its partners.
  • Promote integrated health working.
  • To facilitate a safe and supportive team culture.
  • To participate in the Trustwide Mental Health clinical strategy to improve clinical care.
  • To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice.
  • Support the AMD and senior leadership team in strategic service development and business planning.
  • Advocate and lead on coproduction in the development of services

Communication:

  • To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
  • To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
Person Specification
Qualifications
  • Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT o
  • Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.
Experience
  • oMastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
  • oExperience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
  • oWorking with interpreters and translators
Knowledge
  • oExtensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
  • oAn understanding of leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.
Clinical Skills
  • Excellent clinical skills
  • Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

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