Consultant Psychiatrist - Enfield North Locality Team

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Community Services in Enfield. The role offered is that of a Consultant in The Enfield North Locality Team covering one of the Community General Adult Teams in the London Borough of Enfield. Please see the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications.
Part-time applicants are also welcome. This post is awaiting approval by the Royal College of Psychiatrist - submitted for approval on 05.12.2024.
Interviews will be scheduled within 3-4 weeks of the advert closing., This post offers 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, further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and priorities.

This is the post of Consultant Psychiatrist within the Enfield North Locality Team within the North London NHS Foundation Trust. The North Locality Team is one of two Core Community Mental Health Teams (North and South) that together would cover the borough of Enfield. There are sister teams in the other boroughs of the trust covered by other consultant colleagues.

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk, 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.