Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist

Primary Care Mental Health Teams provide care for people with mental health needs that cannot be met in primary care/community support or Talking Therapies Southwark, or by the new PCN practitioner provision., The service will provide assessment/ triage of referrals by a single assessor, MDT / multi-agency assessment and care planning and brief treatment/interventions. Other interventions offered by the team include stepped care psychological interventions, longer term therapies, peer support, carer support, dual diagnosis specialist interventions, rapid access to eating disorder specialists and coordination of access to other support and interventions e.g. Employment advice, welfare/benefits advice. The routes out following treatment/assessment will be to facilitate astep back downto primary care /community-basedsupportor totransfertoalonger term / specialist team

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 25,000employees 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 outpatientbased services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skillsand 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 inEurope, the Middle East and China,

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'.