Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist - Croydon CMHT for Older Adults

South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic substantive Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist to join the southern part of Croydon Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. This post has arisen due to the current post holder leaving.

Croydon Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is one of the four older adult CMHTs in SLaM. The older adults services are part of the PMOA (Psychological Medicine and Older Adults) Directorate.

Croydon Older Adults Community Mental Health Team provides care and treatment to older adults residing in Croydon with both functional and organic mental health problems requiring secondary care input. The hours of operation are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. There is a full complement of multi-professionals and higher trainee psychiatrists. The post holder will work alongside another 2 consultants (covering other sectors within the borough)., Clinical responsibilities will be to provide shared senior medical leadership to Croydon CMHT for older adults (jointly with the other 2 consultants).

The post-holder will be Responsible Clinician for patients in the southern sector of the borough.

The post-holder will provide senior medical input to the multi-disciplinary team, take part in regular meetings of the team, provide senior psychiatric advice regarding diagnosis and the development of appropriate treatment plans.

Most of the new assessments are undertaken by other members of the MDT and discussed in team meetings. The post holder will undertake new assessments when required, especially those patients with a more complex presentation likely to require a consultant opinion.

The post-holder will be expected to provide supervision to the other medical members of the team in line with Royal College of Psychiatrists requirements and the Trust's Supervision policy. They will support the team manager in evaluating the performance of the team and be part of quality improvement work going on in the Team.

The post holder will participate in the MHOA consultant on-call rota, providing consultant advice/ support to on-call core and specialist trainees when they see older adults patients . The rota is approximately 1 in 22. The post holder will be expected to be part of reciprocal consultant cover arrangements in Croydon CMHT for older adults.

The post holder will work in a well-established multidisciplinary team with junior medical cover. There is dedicated office space as well as admin support.

The post holder is expected to take advantage of opportunities for innovative service development, quality improvement and management/leadership development in the directorate as well as within the Trust. There are ample opportunities for educational, academic and managerial roles. There are also opportunities for collaborations, as SLaM is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre and also the only mental health trust in the UK to have its own biomedical research centre, hosted jointly with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at KCL.