# Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry > 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/specialty-doctor-liaison-psychiatry/534aad87-5871-4f49-bae2-df2d1b3b94ac - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialty-doctor-liaison-psychiatry/534aad87-5871-4f49-bae2-df2d1b3b94ac.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Trinity Building, Springfield University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £63,696 - £102,689 per annum pro rata plus London Zone Allowances - **Contract type:** Permanent: NA - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-21T12:16:27.399Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/General_adult_psychiatry/General_adult_psychiatry-v8240797 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8240797?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry Contract: Fixed Term Contract Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week), part time considered Site: Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Liaison Psychiatry at Kingston Hospital. In this post the Specialty Doctor will participate in the work of the liaison psychiatry team in a large, general teaching hospital. He/she will undertake supervised psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients referred by non-psychiatric teams from Kingston Hospital. Patients are referred from all wards and clinical areas within the hospital, including new presentations of functional and organic illness, as well as patients with established mental disorders who have been admitted for medical or surgical treatment. ### Main duties of the job The post-holder will work managing mental disorders in this setting, including prescribing for patients with altered metabolism, and delivering brief psychological interventions. The post-holder will conduct and supervise psychiatric assessment and management of deliberate self-harm and psychiatric emergencies presenting in the Accident and Emergency department, as well as hospital wards. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Full participation in the multi-disciplinary team - To assess and advise on the physical and mental health of team patients - To prescribe for patients as needed - To manage some or all of the team’s patients under supervision - Assessing patients for detention under the Mental Health Act when necessary - Liaison with colleagues in other specialties and agencies - Documenting all clinical contacts on the RiO clinical records system in a timely fashion - Participation in all mandatory training. - Teaching medical students who come to the unit for specialist visits - Opportunities for involvement in teaching at the medical school for example lecturing, examining, acting as a personal tutor - Cover for leave is organised internally within the team - There is no on call commitment attached to the post - Administrative support is provided by the team administrator ### 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. ## Person Specification ### QUALIFICATIONS: **Essential** - Primary Medical degree - Full GMC registration. - At least 4 years postgraduate medical experience, of which at least 2 years working in psychiatry - Eligible for S12 approval and able to obtain this within 6 months of appointment **Desirable** - MRCPsych or equivalent - Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act ### KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE: **Essential** - Experience of general adult psychiatry. - Assessment of simple or complex mental illness - Assessment of comorbid physical ill-health - Teamwork - Communication - Ongoing commitment to CPD **Desirable** - Experience of liaison psychiatry - Experience of inpatient psychiatry - Experience of crisis & home treatment - Teaching experience - Experience of managing physical and mental disorder at a middle-grade level - Evidence of active engagement in audit/ quality improvement - Evidence of recent appraisal ### PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS: **Essential** - Ability to remain calm under pressure Ability to inspire others Ability to provide good clinical leadership Ability to effect change Ability to negotiate and collaborate with first, second and third sector organisations to identify shared agendas and meet common goals - Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from allied disciplines Willingness to take on a fair share of Trustwide duties - Commitment to personal, team and service development - Ability to work co-operatively in multi- disciplinary teams Ability to manage and adapt to change **Desirable** - Personal experience of mental illness Personal experience of social distress - Evidence of helping others who have suffered physical, mental or social misfortune Evidence of seeking feedback as a way of improving one’s skills ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 936.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551623) - [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.