PA) Consultant

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a joint clinical leader for their East Core Team to provide treatment plans, lead a clinical team, and manage community emergencies. Responsibilities include conducting medical reviews, assessing patient wellbeing, and participating in team governance. Applicants should have experience in psychiatric care and community mental health services. This role is essential for delivering high-quality mental health care in North London.

Qualifications

• Provide joint clinical leadership for the East Core Team.
• Contribute to the assessment of newly referred cases.
• Manage community emergencies, including home visits.

Responsibilities

• Formulate appropriate treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues.
• Conclude medical reviews including monitoring patient wellbeing.
• Participate in weekly team meetings and undertake other duties.

Job description

About the Trust

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high‑quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more. The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk. Before submitting your application, please ensure you have the correct right to work. Guidance on whether this post will be eligible for a sponsorship can be found here: Skilled Worker visa – If you work in healthcare or education – GOV.UK.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide joint clinical leadership for the East Core Team, working alongside two other Consultants.

• Contribute to the assessment of newly referred cases and formulate appropriate treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines.
• Conclude medical reviews for those on the caseload including monitoring of patient mental, physical and psychological wellbeing, assessment and review of needs, risk assessments, monitoring, assessing medication response, dosage adjustments and review of potential side effects.
• Manage community emergencies, including home visits for those on the caseload.
• Act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for the clients of the East Locality Team treated on a Community Treatment Order (CTO, S17A MHA) under your PCN.
• Comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice such as the Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures.
• Complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.
• Supervise and facilitate learning for medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care.
• Participate in the North Sector Consultant Psychiatrist on‑call rota (1:32).
• Participate in weekly team meetings and undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.
• Provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.
• As a senior clinician, have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service line.

About the Services

North London NHS Foundation Trust provides integrated mental health services to the people of North Central London and serves children, adults and older people from over 20 sites. We support people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and wellbeing, helping them to return to the community and live as independently as possible. Where higher levels of care are required, we provide admission on our wards located at Edgware Community Hospital, Barnet General Hospital (Springwell Centre), Chase Farm Hospital and St. Ann's Hospital, Highgate East and Highgate West. The Trust is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services with a focus on equity, quality, research, and technology. Staff may be required to work at different locations within the North London area, including Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington, as well as temporary or permanent other sites as deemed necessary by the Trust.