Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Psychiatry - Ward and Locality Team

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Enfield Acute Adult Services based in Enfield. The role is a split post between one of the acute wards (Suffolk ward or Sussex ward) and one of the Locality Teams (North or South). These services care for working age adult patients with regards to assessment and treatment. Please refer to the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications within it.We welcome applicants who would like to work part-time as well. This post has been submitted for approval to the Royal College of Psychiatrists and this is awaited at present. A generous Recruitment and Retention Premia of £20,000 is applicable to this post (conditions apply) linked to the in-patient role of this job. A relocation package of up to £8000 is also available for this post.Interviews will take place 2-4 weeks after the applications have closed., These posts are available as full-time posts and would offer 10 Programmed Activities per week - 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity (SPA). The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team(s), further development of the service(s), and the development of clinical pathways and priorities. The post-holder will supervise two psychiatry trainees - ST4-6 and CT1-3 trainees once they have taken up the substantive role from the next trainee rotation. Prior to a trainee doctor being allocated, there will be locum agency or trust appointed doctors in these 2 posts to ensure safe service provision and continuity of care.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.