South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Fixed term Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)
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Job Description: Consultant Psychiatrist
This post is for a fixed-term, full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.
This is a 8PA Consultant Psychiatrist post at the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 1. This is one of 3 teams that comprise the overall Southwark Assertive Outreach and Rehabilitation Team (AORT).
The rehabilitation team serves non-forensic Southwark mental health patients in supported placements and residential care. It offers specialist care for people with severe mental illness, many of whom have co-morbid conditions (substance misuse, personality disorder), with significant impairment of functioning, treatment resistance and complex needs in multiple domains requiring a high level of support; who may be difficult to engage and/or have gone through multiple episodes of inpatient treatment or protracted admissions, and who may pose risks to self and others. The service has a clear focus on recovery and maximising independence, and promoting successful step down to less supported care.
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Clinical duties of post holder
The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and clinical input.
They are described further and fully in the Job Description.
About the Trust
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation 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 groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It 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 programmes in Europe, the Middle East and China.
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The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Daniel Meek
- Job title: Associate Medical Director - Southwark
- Email address: daniel.meek@slam.nhs.uk
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