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This is a full-time, one-year Junior Clinical Fellow Float Doctor post in Psychiatry with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, based in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham or Southwark. The role involves working across different psychiatry services, such as inpatient, crisis, community, rehabilitation, and other specialist teams, depending on service needs, while also joining the on-call rota. It offers broad clinical experience alongside protected time for professional development, including opportunities in quality improvement, research, teaching, and other non-clinical psychiatry-related work.
Main duties of the job
Thee main duties are to manage inpatients or the team caseload and the day-to-day workload of the service, attend ward rounds, team meetings and CPA meetings, carry out risk assessments and develop risk management and care plans, monitor patients’ physical health including examinations and investigations, liaise with GPs and other internal and external professionals, attend external patient meetings when needed, make safeguarding referrals, and maintain accurate clinical records including reports, letters, discharge summaries, and electronic notes. The role also includes taking part in audit, research, quality improvement, service development, teaching, team meetings, and reflective practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a full-time, one-year Junior Clinical Fellow Float Doctor post in Psychiatry with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, based in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham or Southwark. The role is designed to fill service gaps across different psychiatry settings, so the post holder may rotate between inpatient, community, crisis, rehabilitation, and other specialist teams, gaining broad clinical experience while also joining the on-call rota. The main responsibilities include managing patients and team caseloads, attending ward rounds and meetings, carrying out risk assessments, developing care plans, monitoring physical health, liaising with GPs and other agencies, making safeguarding referrals, and keeping accurate clinical records. In addition, the role includes contributing to audit, research, quality improvement, service development, teaching, and reflective practice, with protected time each week for professional development.
Person specification
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Essential
- Fully Registered Medical Practitioner
- Experience of working as a doctor in the NHS for at least two years
- Excellent Communication Skills
Desirable
- Experience in Psychiatric Settings
- Experience of being involved in management and Quality Improvement activities
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students and staff of other disciplines
- Research experience within medicine
- Taking the lead role in any of: QIP/Teaching Initiative/Research Project/Publication
- Giving a presentation at national or international level
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This advert is for Four Junior Clinical Fellow Float Doctors with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Junior Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £54,499 (MT03) - £67,325 (MT04) per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Ends on 03/08/27). The application deadline is 02 Jul 2026.
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