Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job overview

p/t Consultant Psychiatrist  6PAs

The Trust is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant Psychiatrist for Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry. This is an established post. The vacancy has arisen as a result of current post holder reducing his hours.

This post is for 6 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week.

This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and dynamic Consultant psychiatrist to join this effective, friendly and rewarding service.

The Locum Consultant Psychiatrist will work with the other Liaison Consultant,  to provide senior cover to the Hospital wards and the Accident and Emergency Department, whilst working within and jointly clinically supervising the Liaison Team.  During daytime hours, the team sees patients above 18 years in all wards and departments, including the Emergency Department and Clinical Decisions Unit.

Main duties of the job

• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with, and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their service line.
• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team
• Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
• Providing cross-cover for the Consultant colleagues where necessary.
• Management of complex cases
• Allocation of resources, in collaboration with the team manager, to service users and carers.
• Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Kingston Hospital is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

Please refer the attached JDPS  for detailed job description and main responsibilities