# Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - Kingston Hospital > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-psychiatrist-kingston-hospital/a364ef95-a788-44c2-a95b-1b5903138505 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-psychiatrist-kingston-hospital/a364ef95-a788-44c2-a95b-1b5903138505.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum inclusive of inner London - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-16T15:01:05.837Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Kingston_Hospital/Kingston_Hospital-v8088441 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8088441?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - Post and specialty: | Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist   This is an established post - Base: | Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB - Contract: | Full Time fixed term locum - Tenure and start date: | Fixed term locum 10 Aug 2026 to 9 Aug 2027 ### Main duties of the job The Consultant will provide medical leadership to Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Team. The Consultant will work closely with the Team Manager to ensure a safe, efficient and effective service that meets the Trust’s Key Performance Indicators. While individual clinicians within the team have responsibility for the clinical care they deliver, the consultant shares with the team manager and other team members responsibility for ensuring the care delivered by the team is safe and of a good standard. This includes participating in systems of audit and clinical governance, working to resolve problems on their own initiative, and where necessary drawing any concerns they have been unable to resolve themselves to the attention of the team manager and others. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been established over a number of years, and since 2015 has provided a 24/7 service. The Older Adult Psychiatry specialists are integrated with the clinicians providing services to working age adults.  This model ensures that colleagues in the general hospital have a single point of referral, and that expertise in old age psychiatry and general adult psychiatry are shared within the team. For the person appointed to this Consultant post, it will be particularly important to be willing to work across the whole over-18 age spectrum at times, while taking the clinical lead with patients who are over 65 (the group targeted by the older adults practitioners). The post-holder will provide section 12 cover for the acute hospital between 9am and 5pm in the general hospital. This is shared with the other Consultant and the Associate Specialist in the team. The post-holder would lead on providing S.12 cover for the ED and AAU working age patient presentations, unless the consultants are providing cross- cover for each other. The Older Adults Liaison Consultant would lead on providing S.12 cover for that age group presentations in the acute hospital. The three senior clinicians in the team provide joint teaching to medical students, junior doctors and nurses. This timetable may be changed in consultation with the Clinical Director in accordance with the Job Plan and Trust Clinical Governance Procedures. Please see attached JDPS for more details ## Job Details Post and specialty: | Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist This is an established post Base: | Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB Contract: | Full Time fixed term locum Tenure and start date: | Fixed term locum 10 Aug 2026 to 9 Aug 2027 ## Job Description The Consultant will provide medical leadership to Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Team. The Consultant will work closely with the Team Manager to ensure a safe, efficient and effective service that meets the Trust’s Key Performance Indicators. While individual clinicians within the team have responsibility for the clinical care they deliver, the consultant shares with the team manager and other team members responsibility for ensuring the care delivered by the team is safe and of a good standard. This includes participating in systems of audit and clinical governance, working to resolve problems on their own initiative, and where necessary drawing any concerns they have been unable to resolve themselves to the attention of the team manager and others. ## Responsibilities The Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been established over a number of years, and since 2015 has provided a 24/7 service. The Older Adult Psychiatry specialists are integrated with the clinicians providing services to working age adults. This model ensures that colleagues in the general hospital have a single point of referral, and that expertise in old age psychiatry and general adult psychiatry are shared within the team. For the person appointed to this Consultant post, it will be particularly important to be willing to work across the whole over-18 age spectrum at times, while taking the clinical lead with patients who are over 65 (the group targeted by the older adults practitioners). The post-holder will provide section 12 cover for the acute hospital between 9am and 5pm in the general hospital. This is shared with the other Consultant and the Associate Specialist in the team. The post-holder would lead on providing S.12 cover for the ED and AAU working age patient presentations, unless the consultants are providing cross- cover for each other. The Older Adults Liaison Consultant would lead on providing S.12 cover for that age group presentations in the acute hospital. The three senior clinicians in the team provide joint teaching to medical students, junior doctors and nurses. This timetable may be changed in consultation with the Clinical Director in accordance with the Job Plan and Trust Clinical Governance Procedures. Please see attached JDPS for more details ## Person Specification ### TEACHING: **Essential** - Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry **Desirable** - Teaching Qualification Evidence of feedback good from students ### Qualifications **Essential** - Primary Medical degree. - Full GMC registration - Included on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT. - Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act **Desirable** - MRCPsych, or equivalent. Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry - CCT in General Adult Psychiatry. - Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DBT or MBT - Qualifications in change management and service development skills - Other higher degrees or further training relevant to the post. ### AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT: **Essential** - Engage in continuing professional development, and join a Peer Group to gain approval for CPD done. - Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit, quality improvement, and working with colleagues in the liaison psychiatry team, the acute trust, and managers. Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer’s groups, and local charities. **Desirable** - Experience of service planning and development - Experience of working with third sector partners ### AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT: RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: **Desirable** - Evidence of participation in research, and outcomes of studies - Higher degree in research Completion of a research project and evidence of its dissemination - Publication in a peer reviewed journal ### QUALIFICATIONS: KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE: Critical Expertise in Specialty **Essential** - Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved Higher Psychiatric training scheme. - A detailed knowledge of main treatment approaches for severe mental illness including psychopharmacological interventions **Desirable** - Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management - Experience of teaching medical and non-medical staff, including those who may not have a formal qualification ## Documents - [consultant (pdf, 168.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10381488) - [consultant (pdf, 683.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10381487) - [trust strategy (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1559) - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) - [personal details and fitness to practice (doc, 26.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=490) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.