Consultant Psychiatrist - Neighbourhood Community Mental Health Team

Job overview

Pending College Approval

Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – N2 North team. One post available

You will be providing input for the Community Mental Health Team in Lewisham’s Neighbourhood 2 in the North part of the neighbourhood (N2N).

Main duties of the job

• To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the Clinical Service Lead
• To take consultant responsibility for your sector of the Neighbourhood Community Mental Health team, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising 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
• 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 provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover including under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Lewisham during working hours
• To keep up to date with all developments in research and treatment around acute care pathways and inpatient mental health care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is envisaged that the post holder will work 10-programmed activities over 5 days. The overall split of the programmed activities is 7.5 to be devoted to direct clinical care and 2.5 to supporting professional activities (as per the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommendation). The timetable is indicative only. The detailed formal job plan will be developed and agreed with Dr Hugh Williams, AMD for Lewisham, and job plan objectives reviewed three months after commencing the post and at least annually thereafter.