Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London seeks a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to deliver medical leadership within the community rehabilitation team. Candidates will engage with complex mental health patients showing significant impairment and work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure evidence-based treatment. The role necessitates maintaining professional standards while providing joint leadership and consulting services. The closing date for applications is January 28, 2026.

Qualifications

• Experienced in providing medical leadership in a community setting.
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act and its applications.
• Strong understanding of severe mental illness and comorbid conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide joint clinical leadership and consultant input.
• Manage patients under supported community settings.
• Liaise with external stakeholders and GPs regarding patient care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Evidence-based treatments

Education

Medical degree

Section 12 approval

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at South London and Ma Cipher NHS Foundation Trust. This post is a fixed‑term, full‑time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.

The post is a 10‑PA Consultant Psychiatrist position within the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 2, one of three teams that make up 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 across multiple domains requiring a high level of support. These patients may be difficult to engage, may have gone through multiple episodes of inpatient treatment or protracted admissions, and may pose risks to self and others. The service focuses on recovery, maximising independence and promoting successful step‑down to less supported care.

Clinical duties

• Provide enthusiastic, flexible joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team.
Take consultant and, where necessary, RC responsibility for patients in supported settings in the community.
• Provide RC responsibility and Section 12 cover to patients under your care where detention under the Mental Health Act is required, including admission under an inpatient service, Section 37/41 of the MHA and for Section 17A, Community Treatment Orders.
• Work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk‑taking and anti‑discriminatory practice.
• Liaise with external placement providers on the care of patients in the borough.
• Liaise with Consultant Psychiatrists working in community and inpatient units concerning transfer of patients.
• Liaise with General Practitioners concerning physical health, CPA and discharges.
• Provide active leadership in planning accommodation moves.
• Offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness.
• Ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence‑based treatments.
• Act as a source of support, advice and information to blazing now:
• In conjunction with the Team Leader, help represent the unit at CAG, care pathway meetings and other internal and external meetings where needed.
• Provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover (including under Section 12 of.Fruk Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Southwark during working hours).
• Keep up‑to‑date with all developments in research and treatment around community/rehab care pathways and community mental health care.
• Develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations.
• Undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician түгел Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed.
• Work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care.

Additional Information

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service‑user outcomes. The Trust’s core value states that ‘everything we do gratulating improve experience of people using our services and to promote pylio health and wellbeing for all’.

This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Jan 2026.