Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Liaison Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 sessions including weekend working)
- Job ref
- 455-ME608-MHCAS
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service & Health Based Place of Safety
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/10/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Consultant Emergency Liaison Psychiatry-MHCAS
Consultant
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The post offered is a substantive (pending approval) Consultant position in emergency liaison psychiatry for general adults and the older adult population. This is working across the exciting and award-winning assessment services in the North Central London partnership. The services are; the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS) and the Health Based Place of Safety Service (HBPOS).
The post has become available as the previous full time incumbent has been taken on a clinical directorship role.
Substantive role pending approval from Royal College of Psychiatrists Primary base is at Highgate Mental Health Centre West, Dartmouth Park Hill, London N19 5XN.
Main duties of the job
Work closely with the other Consultants and the Acute Division clinical director, associate clinical director, service director, service manager and team manager to provide strategic clinical leadership to the multi-professional group and contribute to strategic direction of the unit and development of this care pathway.
Support in providing day to day clinical leadership to an experienced Multi-disciplinary team. This will include undertaking routine daily section 136/135 assessments in the HBPOS unit and senior medical reviews and MHAA’s at MHCAS; liaising with emergency department liaison teams/medical staff (when patients move between the two services); providing brief clinical reports and handover information to inpatient ward staff prior to transfer of patients subsequently detained under the mental health act and providing clinical guidance to other team members as and when required.
Participate in a daily team supervision/clinical handover de-briefing session for overnight on-call Core and Higher trainees (when handing over clinical responsibility to the team’s medical team).
Working for our organisation
North London Foundation Trust was inaugurated on 1st November 2024 following the formal merger of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust following over 2 years of partnership working.
Our four Strategic Aims for the Partnership over the next five years are that:
• We provide consistently high-quality care, closer to home
• With our partners in North London and each Borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We create great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, Quality Improvement and technology
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Post-holder and the team are also expected to forge close links with other Liaison Consultants in the Trust based at the Whittington, University College and Royal Free Hospital Trusts as well as in neighbouring boroughs (Islington, Haringey, BArent, Enfield and Hackney).
They will also work closely with the Trust’s 3 crisis teams. This will be particularly important in ensuring the effective follow-up care and seamless transfer of patients who may require the organization of follow-up care if subsequently not detained under the mental health act.
The post holder is expected to work in an integrated way with liaison colleagues in aligned services. HBPOS is on the Highgate West hospital site co-located with the Whittington Hospital Liaison team who cover the Whittington Hospital. It is anticipated that the post holder would work seamlessly with their colleagues in this team to support patient care when there are pressures in the system.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Registration
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and a license to practice. Must be on the specialist register or within 6 months of gaining a Certificate of Completion of Training
- Membership of Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent higher qualification in psychiatry Specialist accreditation in General adult Psychiatry and / or Old Age psychiatry (Including CESR equivalent)
- Section 12(2) and Approved Clinician status (or eligibility) - qualifies to act as a Responsible Clinician
- Registered with Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD programme and in good standing
- Trained as an Educational Supervisor for doctors in training
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant post-graduate qualification
- Liaison psychiatry accreditation
- Trained as an Educational Supervisor for doctors in training
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and observance of the requirements and duties of a doctor laid down by the GMC in Good Medical Practice.
- Clinical knowledge of the full range mental disorders.
- Experience in the assessment of complex clinical cases involving severe and enduring mental illness and significant risk histories and the ability to assertively engage and manage such cases.
- Expertise in a comprehensive range of evidence based treatment and case management options including pharmacotherapy.
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding practices
- Experience in work-place based assessments of doctors in training
- Experience in work-place based assessments of doctors in training
- Management: Knowledge of clinical commissioning and external organisations that interface with an NHS Trust.
- Experience in organising and chairing meetings.
- Good understanding of Trust governance structures, especially clinical governance
- An understanding of the role of research within the wider service
- Willingness to participate in research as appropriate and within the context of the duties of the post
Desirable criteria
- Significant previous clinical experience at junior, higher trainee and/or consultant level in Acute Hospital ward-based general & older adult psychiatry
- Significant previous clinical experience at junior, higher trainee and/or consultant level in Mental Health inpatient older adult adult psychiatry
- Experience in teaching small and large groups
- Experience in developing policies and protocols.
- Experience of service development.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable to change.
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas and influence others.
- Good knowledge of and ability to use both spoken and written English
- Ability to organise workload and manage time and delegate responsibility where appropriate
- Ability to practise as an independent Consultant Psychiatrist.
- Thoroughness and attention to detail in clinical matters
- Sensitivity to needs of all patients and carers.
- Sensitivity and awareness in clients and staff from different cultures, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations.
- Teaching and supervision skills for undergraduate medical students, doctors in training and multi-professional staff
- Ability to work in a team environment and to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multidisciplinary basis with all levels of staff.
- Ability to take on the role and responsibilities of the clinical lead
- Experience in undertaking clinical audit, investigating serious incidents and handling complaints
- Enthusiasm for teaching psychopathology and willingness to share knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
- A special interest or willingness to develop one in an area which helps to meet the needs of the Trust
- Experience in successfully delivering research projects
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
- Dr James Dove
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Hospital Division
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 317 7345
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