South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist,
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About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term, 10 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 post holder will support service innovations, quality improvements and clinical research, education in perinatal psychiatry within SLaM, sharing strong clinical leadership within the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide Clinical Leadership and Consultant input
- Participate in the framework of Clinical Governance
- Take consultant responsibility for patients on MBU, assessment and devising or helping to devise appropriate investigation and treatment plans
- Deliver on the quality and outcomes
- Provide RC and Section 12 responsibilities to patients
- Reviewing patients on the case load on a regular basis and in line with changes in new ways of working
- Work flexibly with the other consultants on MBU and across the community boroughs
- Offer advice and provide clinical and educational supervision to CT and ST residents
- Offer expert risk assessment and management skills
- Promote and advocate for the principles and practice of Perinatal Psychiatry locally and nationally
- Work flexibly and creatively as part of a MDT
- Deliver Service Line management
- Liaison with/advice to General Practitioners concerning service users subject to CPA
- Provide reciprocal cover under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave
- Encourage and lead as appropriate service based research and teaching
- Education and training of midwives and health visitors
- Maintain help to address clinical governance issues within MBU
- Participation in, contribution to service audit, service evaluation and research
- Attendance at audit/academic/management meetings, appropriate to the needs of the service
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About the Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit
The Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) is a world renowned local and national, 12 bedded acute psychiatric ward, that provides multi-disciplinary specialist care for women aged 18+ who are pregnant (third trimester) or have a baby under one year and are experiencing moderate to severe mental illness. Women aged 16–18 may also be admitted with CAMHS support.
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It was established in 1981, is a regional and national inpatient service within the Operations Directorate of Psychological Medicine and Older Adults at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). It works alongside linked Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams serving Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, and Croydon, and their associated acute hospitals (St Thomas’s, King’s College Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham, and Croydon University Hospital).
Since 2023, the MBU has been part of the South London Partnership Perinatal Provider Collaborative, a partnership between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, SLaM, and Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLStG).
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Livia Martucci
- Job title: Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry
- Email address: Livia.Martucci@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 02032993234
Ward Manager - Mother And Baby Unit
- Name: June Judd
- Email: June.Judd@slam.nhs.uk
- Mobile: 07596 892626
- Telephone: 02032284747
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