Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a full-time Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to lead a community rehabilitation team. The role requires a qualified psychiatrist with leadership experience, focusing on mental health recovery and supporting complex cases. Responsibilities include clinical leadership, risk assessment, and liaising with healthcare providers. A competitive salary ranging from £109,725 to £145,478 is offered, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry.
• Experience in other relevant specialties such as forensic psychiatry.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatry consultant leadership and clinical input.
• Act as a source of support and advice to patients and team members.
• Ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Good communication skills in English

Experience in risk assessment and management

Knowledge in specialty

Education

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Qualification or higher degree in medical education or clinical research

Job description

Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)

The closing date is 28 January 2026

This post is for a fixed-term, full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.

This is a 10PA Consultant Psychiatrist post at the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 2. This is one of 3 teams that comprise the overall Southwark Assertive Outreach and Rehabilitation Team (AORT).

The rehabilitation team serves non-forensic Southwark mental health patients in supported placements and residential care. It offers specialist care for people with severe mental illness, many of whom have co‑morbid conditions (substance misuse, personality disorder), with significant impairment of functioning, treatment resistance and complex needs in multiple domains requiring a high level of support; who may be difficult to engage and/or have gone through multiple episodes of inpatient treatment or protracted admissions, and who may pose risks to self and others. The service has a clear focus on recovery and maximising independence, and promoting successful step‑down to less supported care.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of post holder

The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and clinical input.

They are described further and fully in the Job Description.

About us

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world‑class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service‑user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatient based services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skills and interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programmes in Europe, the Middle East and China.

The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.

Job responsibilities

Main duties: To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team; To take Consultant and where necessary RC responsibility for patients in a range of supported settings in the community; To provide RC responsibility and Section 12 cover to the patients under your care where detention under the Mental Health Act is required, either for admission under an inpatient service (when RMO responsibility will be transferred) or Section 37/41 of the MHA and for Section 17A, Community Treatment Orders; To work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti‑discriminatory practice; To liaise with external placement providers on the care of patients in the borough; To liaise with Consultant Psychiatrists working in the community and inpatient units concerning transfer of patients; Liaison with General Practitioners concerning physical health, CPA and discharges; To provide active leadership in planning accommodation moves; To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness; To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence‑based treatments; To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals; In conjunction with the Team Leader, will help to represent the unit at CAG and care pathway meetings and other internal and external meetings where needed; To provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover including under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Southwark during working hours; To keep up‑to‑date with all developments in research and treatment around community/rehab care pathways and community mental health care; To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations; To undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed; To work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Experience in other relevant specialties such as forensic psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions

ELIGIBILITY

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry or within six months
• Approved clinician status and under S12 or able to achieve within three months of appointment

CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Good oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Significant experience in risk assessment and management including positive risk taking
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Experience of work in different cultural contexts and evidence of sensitivity to issues of equity and diversity

TEACHING, ACADEMIC AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Significant teaching experience, at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership, working collaboratively and effectively with others in a multidisciplinary team and the wider trust and community
• Leadership and management experience.
• 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
• Formal training or qualifications in supervision
• 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

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience £109,725 - £145,478 per annum