Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist to work at The Royal Marsden Hospital. We have 6 PAs to recruit to at our Sutton site (another Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist works 6Pas at our Chelsea site).

The Adult Psychological Support Service (APSS), in which Liaison Psychiatry is based, provides a service for patients across the two sites of the hospital for inpatients, those receiving ambulatory care and outpatients. Other pathways within the service are: directive therapies (e.g. CBT/ Third Wave approaches, EMDR); exploratory therapies (e.g. integrative, existential, psychodynamic); family therapy (primarily working with adult patients with dependent children, and young adult patients); psychosexual therapy.

Main duties of the job

The Liaison Psychiatry pathway has three main functions: (i) to provide the general liaison psychiatry service to the inpatient wards of the hospital, (ii) to provide a Duty Clinician function, and (iii) to provide psycho-oncology psychiatry through pre-planned outpatient and day patient appointments.

The specific psychiatric issues and associated risks in a specialist cancer hospital include hyperactive delirium, steroid-induced mania and psychosis, major depression, suicidal planning and intent, desire for hastened death; as well as people with pre-existing severe mental illness.

We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role and the team. Please contact Ann Hutchens (020 3915 6173, [email protected]) to arrange a time to speak to Dr Luci Richards, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, or Dr Justin Grayer, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/ Service Lead.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description/person specification for a more detailed description of the role.

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