Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties of this post:

To Provide Clinical Leadership and Consultant input into Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital

To participate in the framework of Clinical Governance as it develops in Psychological Medicine CAG and across the trust.

To take consultant responsibility for patients on Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, assessment of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate investigation and treatment plans, integrating a biological, psychological and social holistic treatment plan. This will include medication regimes and providing prompt medical response for those patients under their direct care and advise and work closely with other members of the MDT. They will support the formulation and diagnosis of patients, with relevant psychological and social interventions.

To deliver on the quality and outcomes set by the PMOA directorate care pathways

To provide RC and section 12 responsibilities under Mental Health Act to patients where necessary or appropriate

Reviewing patients on the case load on a regular basis and in line with changes in new ways of working as they develop within local services

To provide intensive and expert intervention and management of acutely ill patients under the care of the team.

To work flexibly with the other consultants in the Mother and Baby Unit and across the community boroughs, to ensure good transitions of care for patients delivering at Lewisham University Hospital and living in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark , Lewisham, Croydon, South London Partnership and more widely.

To offer advice and provide clinical and educational supervision to the CT and ST residents in the Perinatal Team, and if covering for another perinatal consultant to offer clinical advice to CTs and STs in other perinatal teams.

To offer expert risk assessment and management skills

To promote and advocate for the principles and practice of Perinatal Psychiatry in the local and national arena

To work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti-discriminatory practice

To deliver Service Line management working with the team leader, Clinical Service Lead and Clinical Lead

Liaison with/advice to General Practitioners concerning service users subject to CPA.

To participate in training for medical students, FYs, CT and STs in SLaM

To provide reciprocal cover under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff within Mother and Baby Unit and the Community Perinatal Service.

To encourage and lead as appropriate service based research and teaching.

Education and training of midwifes and health visitors.

Provision of clinical advice to colleagues.

To maintain help to address clinical governance issues within the Mother and Baby Unit and linked Community Perinatal Service and work alongside accreditation requirements and national standards for these service e.g. as outlined by the Royal College Psychiatry CCQI standards for Mother and Baby Unit Community Perinatal Services. This will include regular feedback to commissioners about progress of the continuing expansion, including participating in collection of outcomes measures and performance metrics for the service.

To agree and regularly review job plan objectives with the Associate Medical Director and Clinical Lead.

The post holder will carry a mobile during work hours and be contactable by members of the team.

Participation in, contribution to service audit, service evaluation and research.

Attendance at audit/academic/management meetings, appropriate to the needs of the service.

External duties to include participation in Pan London and national Perinatal Psychiatry events, Royal College Psychiatry peer review and accreditation of perinatal services, annual RCPsych Perinatal Psychiatry Scientific day; Marce Society events.

Annual leave will be agreed with the Clinical Director and Lead Clinician and communicated promptly to the Community Team Manager.

Person Specification

Degree

Essential

• Achieved grade / experience

Desirable

• Achieved grade / experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital

Bethlem Royal Hospital

Croydon

BR3 3BX

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)