Specialty Doctor in General Adult Rehabilitation Psychiatry

Maudsley Learning; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Maudsley Learning seeks a dynamic Specialty Doctor in General Adult Rehabilitation Psychiatry. The role involves providing clinical leadership within a community residential unit, assessing patients, managing treatment plans, and engaging with multidisciplinary teams. Join us in delivering high-quality mental healthcare and contributing to exciting community rehabilitation projects.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions, and leave

Flexible working options

Career development programs

NHS discounts on retail brands

Qualifications

• Experience in relevant specialties such as inpatient psychiatry, old age psychiatry, and addictions.
• In good standing with GMC, with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatry consultant leadership and act as the main psychiatrist for the Penrose service.
• Assess and manage patients, devising treatment plans and medication regimes.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise

Job description

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Specialty Doctor in General Adult Rehabilitation Psychiatry

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Main area Psychiatry - Rehabilitation Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours Part time - 4 sessions per week Job ref 334-LEW-7178747-JA

Site Lewisham Town Lewisham Salary £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata Closing 17/06/2025 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) are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic specialty doctor to work within our new community residential adult Rehabilitation unit (Penrose unit) within the London Borough of Lewisham. This is a new post which has been created due to recent funding within the SLP rehab pathway.

This community rehabilitation project will be provided jointly by SLPCC and Penrose (voluntary sector provider) and will be based in the London borough of Lewisham. It is based on a similar model operational in Lambeth (Turrets)

The job is currently being advertised as a 4 PA fixed term role for a period of 12 months.

If you are looking for a refreshing clinical role with excellent opportunities; incorporating quality improvement methodology to evaluate changes, then this is the ideal post for you.

For further details please refer to attached advertisement.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and to act as the main psychiatrist for the Penrose service.

Close liaison with other teams within the SLP pathway especially Heather close and ERT and our secondary and primary care teams will be a key part of the role. You will need to work closely with GPs and other stakeholders .

You will be expected to work ideally for two continuous days of the week to provide consistency and continuity of care. The service users at Penrose remain under the care of their existing community teams and so the RC responsibility will remain with the consultant psychiatrists in the respective CMHTs. This also means that in the days you are not at Penrose (the three days per week, as well as annual leave etc) you will not need to organise cross cover as there are existing cover arrangements in place.

For detailed information, please refer to attached JD.

Working for our organisation

Benefits offered by SLAM:

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 several programs 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
• Accommodation, eligible staff benefit fromkeyworker housing which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team.

• To provide assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team

· Using your expertise to provide advice, liaising closely with GPs and other stakeholders, and providing assessment of complex presentations and creating appropriate management plans

• 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 keep up to date with all developments in research and treatment around acute care pathways and inpatient mental health care

For detailed information, please refer to attached JD.

Person specification

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 relevant specialties such as in patient, old age psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
• 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 Rehabilitation Psychiatry OR within six months
• Approved clinician status and under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Should have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

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
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

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
• 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 Dr. Hugh Williams Job title Lewisham Associate Medical Director Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02032286393 Additional information

Dr Christina Kyriakidou, Clinical Director, SLP - [e-mail]

Bronwyn Dewing, Senior Program Manager, SLP complex care [e-mail] ,