Job requirements
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Essential
25 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other qualities
Commitment to developing user-focused services
- Other qualities
Ability to get on with colleagues across disciplines and specialties
- Other qualities
Ability to appraise own performance
- Personal skills
Ability to work in multidisciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
- Personal skills
Self-motivating
- Personal skills
Confidence in therapeutic risk taking
- Personal skills
Excellent communication skills
- Personal skills
Willingness to innovate and problem-solve service issues
- Research and Audit
Participation in Medical Audit and Quality Improvement initiatives
- Research and Audit
Commitment to research informed care and service development
- Teaching and supervision
Experience of teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate level
- Qualifications and Training
Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice
- Qualifications and Training
Included on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of eligibility
- Qualifications and Training
Approved Clinician status AND Approved under S12 of the UK Mental Health Act (1983), or able to achieve these within 3 months of appointment
- Experience and clinical skills
Excellent knowledge of speciality
- Experience and clinical skills
Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Experience and clinical skills
Able to manage complexity and uncertainty
- Experience and clinical skills
Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contributions of others
- Experience and clinical skills
Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Experience and clinical skills
Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
- Experience and clinical skills
Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
- Organisational and management skills
Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
- Organisational and management skills
Commitment to working with service users on service development
- Organisational and management skills
Commitment to Clinical Governance
- Organisational and management skills
Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
Desirable
12 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other qualities
Experience of active involvement in service user initiatives
- Research and Audit
Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
- Teaching and supervision
Medical education qualification
- Teaching and supervision
Approval to supervise psychiatric trainees
- Qualifications and Training
Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Qualifications and Training
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- Qualifications and Training
In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Qualifications and Training
Experience in other relevant specialties such as liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
- Experience and clinical skills
Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
- Experience and clinical skills
Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Organisational and management skills
Formal leadership and management training
- Organisational and management skills
Experience of team /service leadership
Job overview
The STEP team is a stand- alone community service offering support and management of First Episode Psychosis (FEP) to 18-65 year olds for up to 3 years following first episode. You will work as part of a comprehensive MDT including another consultant (0.4), an associate specialist (LTFT), ST (part time as split post with primary care mental health team), advance practitioner, mental health practitioners, psychologists, occupational therapists and admin support. STEP offers early treatment by means of a range of pharmacological, psychological and social interventions to adults who have made a transition to psychosis and are in the early stages of their illnesses. Care is provided according to PIG guidelines for FEP, using the model of care coordination to ensure that patients have access to the best treatment options available. Particular areas of focus are improving social and occupational outcomes in psychosis through vocational work, befriending, and support groups; and working with families to offer psychoeducation, carer support and family interventions.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this post include providing psychiatry consultant leadership to the Southwark service for Treatment of Early Psychosis) team (STEP). Please see job description for more details.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties:
- To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the team leader and other consultant
- To take consultant responsibility for patients, 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
- 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 Southwark during working hours
- To keep up-to-date with all developments in research and treatment around early intervention
- To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations.
- To undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed
- To work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care
Applicant requirements
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Psychiatrist Southwark Team for Early Psychosis (STEP) with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Beckenham, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 22 Sep 2026.
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