Specialty Grade Psychiatrist - Perinatal Psychiatry (Barnet perinatal services)

This post is for a 0.8 WTE specialty grade psychiatrist working in Barnet perinatal services. The post is available from 4 November 2024 and is for a fixed-term contract for 12 months. The post holder will be working alongside a two substantive consultants and will receive supervision from one of the consultants. The post has come about as a result the current postholder's planned maternity leave. The post-holder will have clinical responsibility for patients referred to the service and will also work closely with multiple agencies within the integrated clinical service model. The SPMHS works closely with maternity services, adult community mental health teams, mental health liaison teams, crisis resolution teams/home treatment teams, adult psychological services, primary care and other community services and organisations.

• Appropriate flexibility within timetabled working hours is anticipated for urgent clinical matters.
• To carry out mental health assessments and reviews and domiciliary assessments as required.
• To provide second opinions for perinatal colleagues if requested.
• To provide medication reviews for perinatal colleagues if requested.
• To support clinical governance projects, particularly QI and audits within the service.
• To attend and participate in MDT meetings to keep informed of service issues and developments.
• To keep up with administration, including clinic letters, entering Dialog + care plans and reviews and risk assessments on the electronic patient record system.
• To assist with serious incident investigations and complaints if requested.
• To keep up to date with mandatory training.
The North London Mental Health Partnership, [the Partnership of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)] aims to offer cutting-edge local, preventative, co-produced, person-centred mental health and wellbeing support to our service users and communities. We are committed to working with service users, carers and partners to improve the mental health of everyone in North London. This will mean supporting people to be resilient and have good mental health, and we will offer early intervention for those with mental health problems to prevent these problems worsening.