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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of adult acute psychiatric inpatient care.
- Experience
A detailed knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the functions of the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Managers' Hearings
- Experience
Experience of writing reports of and attending Managers’ Hearings and MHA Tribunals.
- Knowledge/Skills
Management of complex mental illness
- Knowledge/Skills
Teamwork
- Knowledge/Skills
Communication
- Personal Qualities
Capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively with others. - Capacity to work co-operatively with others and show leadership when appropriate. - Capacity to work effectively in multi-professional and multi-agency teams and to understand own role in team. - Capacity and motivation to treat others with understanding and sensitivity and to see patients as people. - Capacity to see beyond the obvious and to bring a range of approaches to solving problems.
- Personal Qualities
Resilience to cope with external pressures and demands.
- Personal Qualities
Punctuality. Ability to manage time and to prioritise tasks according to clinical and other needs.
- Personal Qualities
Alertness to dangers and emerging situations
- Personal Qualities
Professional and personal integrity
- Personal Qualities
Good spoken and written English
- Training/Qualifications
Primary Medical degree
- Training/Qualifications
Full GMC registration.
- Training/Qualifications
MRCPsych or equivalent.
- Training/Qualifications
Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act (or to be acquired within 6-12 months of the start date of employment)
Desirable
10 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
Personal experience of mental health problems
- Other
Evidence of active engagement in audit/ quality improvement
- Other
Evidence of recent appraisal
- Experience
Experience of working with service users with complex needs including challenging or offending behaviours in general adult psychiatry
- Experience
Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management
- Experience
Experience of working with people with alcohol and/or substance misuse.
- Experience
Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry
- Knowledge/Skills
Up to date knowledge and skills of physical health in general keeping with role as a doctor
- Knowledge/Skills
Ongoing commitment to CPD
- Training/Qualifications
Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DBT or MBT
Job overview
Specialty Doctor - Ellis Ward
Full Time - 10PAs
The Trust is seeking an energetic and motivated specialty doctor, ideally with Section 12 Approval, to work on male only acute inpatient ward to support the consultant psychiatrist in providing high quality clinical care to our patients
Main duties of the job
This post is based at Tolworth Hospital, Red Lion Rd, Tolworth, Surbiton KT6 7QU. Ellis Ward forms part of the inpatient provision of the Trust’s Acute and Urgent Care Service Line, which includes 8 acute adult wards and a PICU, based on 2 sites, Springfield Hospital in Tooting, and Tolworth Hospital in Surbiton.
There are 10 Programmed Activities. These clinical sessions will be on Ellis Ward, within the Inpatient Services of South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (“the Trust”).
The appointed Specialty Doctor will be clinically supervised by the Ellis Ward Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Jose Felix Mendez Jimenez).
The job plan will be reviewed regularly and may be modified reflecting changing needs within the service.
Ellis ward is a mixed 20 bedded ward. Over the last 12months, on average, there were 12 admissions/transfers in, and 10 discharges/transfers out per month.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Attending the 9am daily handover meeting and running MDT meetings in the absence of the consultant
Please see attached JDPS for detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 Specialty Doctor - Ellis Ward with South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £63,696 - £102,689 per annum plus London Zone Allowance. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (.). The application deadline is 08 Nov 2026.
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