Consultant in General Adult Community Psychiatry

CNWL are currently looking for a full time permanent Consultant Psychiatrist, to provide input to a high functioning Community Mental Health Team as part of a multi-disciplinary service (North Kensington Mental Health Hub -CMHH)., To provide clinical leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality care in North Kensington & Chelsea community mental health team.

Supervision, teaching and training of junior medical staff, medical students, specialist nurses, other nurses and other MDT staff.

To participate actively in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Care Quality, and service evaluation projects.

Kensington and Chelsea is an inner London area with a mixed, diverse population with some of the most wealthy and most deprived areas of London. There is a high mental health morbidity and the North west London ICB is committed to a high spend on mental health services.Kensington and Chelsea (K&C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults across the age range within the community and in hospital settings.

These services are based at:o St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards: two adult PICUs, four adult acute wards, two Older Adult wards and Mental Health Crisis Assessment unit (MHCAS)o Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy serviceso older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services based at South Kensington site, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with health psychology serviceso KCW Early Intervention Serviceo K&C Home Treatment Team (HTT)o Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)o Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapieso Re-FoCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House

The team is multi-disciplinary and well resourced. It consists of two PCNs (Neohealth PCN and Westhill/Inclusive PCN). The North Hub team's caseload is around 600-700 patients (300-350 per PCN). It receives on average 25-30 new referrals per week and approximately around 100-120 patients are transferred back to primary care per month., £105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £2162 London weighting per annum pro rata