South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis - COAST
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Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis (General Adult Psychiatry)
This is a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis (General Adult Psychiatry) that has become available following the departure of the previous substantive post holder after many years of service. The post is part-time. The successful candidate will be part of an active Consultant body and will join the Borough Consultants on call rota.
About the Role
The COAST Team is part of the Croydon and Behavioural & Developmental Psychiatry Directorate within the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. COAST is the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service for Croydon and uses an assertive outreach model and receives referrals for the whole of the Borough. The service is an innovative multidisciplinary community team, serving clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds in Croydon who experience their first episode of psychosis and often have challenging and complex needs, including difficulties with engagement.
Responsibilities
The post holder will provide clinical input and leadership for the team together with the other Consultants in the team. There will be a need to:
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- Screen referrals
- Contribute to multidisciplinary assessments
- Correspond with referrers, colleagues and other involved professionals in assessments and treatment of accepted patients
- Have Responsible clinician responsibilities for their part of the caseload
- Conduct regular psychiatric reviews
- Contribute to care planning meetings of community patients under the care of the team
- Support inpatient colleagues when patients are admitted to the wards
- Write tribunal reports
- Attend tribunals as required
Daily Activities
The post holder will be seeing patients at their clinic on a daily basis. The number of patients may vary but will be on average of 8 a week, including new patients, follow ups and emergencies. The rate of tribunals/managers hearings is around 1 every 6 weeks.
About the Trust
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK across four South London Boroughs: Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark. The Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence, and world-class teaching to deliver ground-breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.
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The Trust has 230 community, inpatient, and outpatient-based services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skills and interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme in Europe, the Middle East and China.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Serena Lai
- Job title: Associate Medical Director – Croydon Directorate
- Email address: serena.lai@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07961250993
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