Specialty Grade Psychiatrist - Perinatal Psychiatry (Camden and UCLH antenatal services)

This post is for a 0.5 WTE specialty grade psychiatrist working in Camden and UCLH antenatal services. The post is available from 1 September 2024 and is for a fixed-term contract until 6 August 2025. The post holder will be working alongside two substantive consultants and will receive supervision from one of the consultants. The post has come about as a result of a gap in provision of a specialty trainee. 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.
Working for our organisation The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership. Why choose to join the Partnership? + We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. + Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses. + Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors. + Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff. + We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more. + Generous Annual Leave Allowance + NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services. + We have excellent internal staff network support groups. The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars: + 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 new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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., This is an exciting role where the post holder will provide psychiatric input to the integrated SPMHS. The post holder will be supported by the multidisciplinary team. Perinatal psychiatrists have expertise in the prevention, assessment and management of mental disorders occurring or co-existing with pregnancy or the postpartum period, including the assessment and facilitation of the mother-infant relationship in the context of maternal mental illness. The post holder will clinically cover Camden-based women booked to deliver at UCLH and other local maternity units. The provision of preconception advice for women with severe mental illness from Camden will also be provided. The service works in partnership with maternity services and has well established joint multiagency network meetings with social care and maternity services at the hospitals. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable. All patients on the caseload fall under one of the two consultants. The post holder will work cohesively to support and advise MDT colleagues whilst also working autonomously and innovatively. They will supervise junior colleagues. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.