Job summary
- Main area
- General Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 5 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 334-CRY-7479471-JA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum plus £2162 London Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Adult/Perinatal Psychiatrist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has risen for a substantive, 5 PA consultant psychiatrist post at the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, at Bethlem Royal Hospital. The successful candidate will work with other multidisciplinary members of the Mother and Baby Unit and linked perinatal community services across South London and Maudsley and The South London Partnership, as well as nationally, to deliver high quality, safe, excellent, evidence-based care. The pots holder will support service innovations, quality improvements and clinical research, education in perinatal psychiatry within SLaM, sharing strong clinical leadership within the team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed consultant psychiatrist to work in a leading national Mother and Baby Unit, providing flexible clinical leadership and consultant responsibility and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team including an existing consultant. The post holder will provide clinical work specifically in the Mother and Baby Unit in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting new Consultant post with the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit, at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The post is to work alongside another consultant. The caseload and clinical responsibility will be split equally between the two consultant psychiatrists. The consultant psychiatrist has the overall responsibility, to lead the overall care of the patient and their baby and family, integrating biological, psychological and social aspects of assessment, investigations and treatment. The post holder will work alongside the multidisciplinary team. The MBU provides both local and national services to mothers who have a range of psychiatric disorder, diagnosed during pregnancy, or the postpartum period, up to the infant being approximately one year old. The community psychiatrists also see some women are seen for preconception advice, when they have past history of moderate to severe mental illness and want to conceive and require possible advice on their risk of relapse, their care, their medication plan and the potential impact on the developing foetus. Women in the community perinatal teams are screened in the antenatal period in the maternity hospitals and those with a moderate to severe mental illness are assessed, and treated throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period.
Working for our organisation
The Trust is committed to improving the work experience of all employees under ‘Making SLaM a Great Place to Work’. There are different streams of work being develop to address different aspects of this as well as work to improve the consultant experience led by the Medical Director and open to interested consultants. This work includes making an explicit offer to StartWell Consultants and also considering the needs of consultants long-term with professional development opportunities as well as addressing the need to have flexibility in how they work while prioritising the needs of the patients under our care.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- Achieved grade / experience
Desirable criteria
- Achieved grade / experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Livia Martucci
- Job title
- Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry
- Email address
- [email protected]
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