Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2389-C
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springwell Centre Barnet General Hospital
- Town
- Wellhouse Lane London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist – Barnet North Team
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust is responsible for providing mental health services for people of all ages across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, as well as providing some specialist services across the whole of North London and beyond. Since January 2011, the Trust also provides adult and children’s community health services in Enfield, following the transfer of Enfield Community Services from NHS Enfield.
Please note - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust will only accept on-line application forms.
Job overview
The post offered is that of Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry (10PA), working in the Barnet North Core Community Team. The team is aligned to the Primary Care GP Locality in the North of the Borough. The post holder will share consultant lead responsibilities with one full-time substantive consultant in the service, ensuring high quality, patient-centered, effective and safe care is delivered by the team. This post will have responsibility for adults with complex mental health presentations. The North Team is one of three adult core community teams (previously known as locality teams) within Barnet (North, South and West).
The team is multi-disciplinary and consists of professionals from a number of backgrounds including nursing, social work, psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, graduate mental health workers and community engagement workers and are supported by a dedicated admin team. The care delivered is recovery-focused which involves a change in focus from managing problems and symptoms to focusing on an individual’s strengths and goals for the future. The service aims to assist individuals to be in control of your own life and seek out opportunities beyond their condition.
The service is for adults experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and who may also have complex needs that would be best met by secondary mental health services.
Main duties of the job
A more detailed job description is attached. There is support for newly appointed consultants in the StartWell group. As part of this the post holder will have the opportunity of having a more senior consultant as a mentor. The post holder will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the Barnet West Core Community Mental Health Team.
The post holder will provide assessment of new patients and clinical supervision of assessments carried out by other team members; making formulations using a biopsychosocial model. Ensuring evidence-based practice that is patient centered in recovery principles. The post holder will provide clinical and professional leadership in the Team and will take part in management activities related to the post and the wider service within which it is embedded.
Service development and quality improvement in line with the Trust’s vision, values and objectives are core responsibilities. The post holder is expected to maintain compliance with all legal obligations as prescribed by the Mental Health Act (MHA) and the Ministry of Justice. The post holder is expected to assess patients under the MHA and make recommendations under the MHA and to act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for patients detained under a S17A Mental Health Act 1983 (Community Treatment Order).
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Trust is committed to the implementation of the annual consultant appraisal, outlined in the NHS Executive Advance Letters (MD) 6/00 and (MD) 5/01. The Trust uses the L2P software for the appraisal process. Appraisal and revalidation lead is Dr Koye Odutoye. The Responsible Officer for revalidation is Dr Vincent Kirchner.
Consultants joining the Trust will be offered a formal job planning meeting within three months of joining the work force. Job planning meetings are held by the presence of the clinical director (and service director if appropriate) with a job plan being reached collaboratively between the post holder, their line manager and the service director. The Trust is committed to annual reviews of job plans with a view to ensure that job plans are realistic and offer a productive balance between clinical care, service development needs and personal developmental goals of the post-holder.
Consultants joining the Trust will participate in a two-day trust-wide induction. Furthermore, they will be offered and individually arranged local induction program, during which they will meet local managers and colleagues, with whom they will share an interface.
Person specification
Application and interview
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent qualification
- Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Section 12 Approved or able to achieve within three months of appointment
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using biopsycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Ability to work in and lead team
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
- Has actively participated in clinical audit/quality improvement programmes.
- Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Open Dialogue Training
- Additional clinical qualification
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
- Experience in data gathering and management
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 Tomasz Mielnik
- Job title
- Barnet - Associate Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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