South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry
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Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry
Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week), part time considered
Site: Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB
The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Liaison Psychiatry at Kingston Hospital. In this post the Specialty Doctor will participate in the work of the liaison psychiatry team in a large, general teaching hospital. He/she will undertake supervised psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients referred by non-psychiatric teams from Kingston Hospital.
Patients are referred from all wards and clinical areas within the hospital, including new presentations of functional and organic illness, as well as patients with established mental disorders who have been admitted for medical or surgical treatment.
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The post-holder will work managing mental disorders in this setting, including prescribing for patients with altered metabolism, and delivering brief psychological interventions.
The post-holder will conduct and supervise psychiatric assessment and management of deliberate self-harm and psychiatric emergencies presenting in the Accident and Emergency department, as well as hospital wards.
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
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We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Dr Adrian Wong
Job title: ACD & Consultant Psychiatrist
Email address: medicalstaffing@swlstg.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07783 894920
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