# Consultant Psychiatrist in General Psychiatry (Kilburn CMHT)

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Community Mental Health Team, based at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health in Brent. The successful candidate will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the Kilburn Locality Community Mental Health Team.

**Main Duties:**

- Assess new patients and provide clinical supervision of assessments conducted by other team members.

- Participate fully in the multidisciplinary team providing care in the community.

- Take senior medical responsibility for the care of complex patients.

- Review and monitor caseloads to ensure appropriate care plans are in place.

- Contribute to the continuous development of the Community Mental Health Team.

- Provide domiciliary visits to assess and treat patients.

- Conduct research and clinical audits as part of clinical governance and quality improvement.

- Liaise with other services, including hospitals, home treatment teams, and forensic services.

**Leadership Responsibilities:**

- Lead on quality improvement initiatives.

- Meet regularly with team and local service managers to discuss quality, finance, and performance targets.

- Support recruitment and retention of team members.

- Line manage and provide clinical supervision to junior and higher trainees and specialty doctors.

- Teach medical students.

- Develop relationships with primary care networks.

**Teaching and Training Responsibilities:**

- Participate in postgraduate teaching programmes.

- Teach and train medical students and wider MDT staff.

- Support work experience students.

- Encourage consultants to take up the role of Educational Supervisors.

**General Duties:**

- Manage, appraise, and supervise junior medical staff.

- Ensure junior medical staff operate within the parameters of the New Deal and Working Time Directive.

- Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care.

- Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively.

- Participate in service and business planning activities.

- Attend and participate in the academic program of the Trust.

- Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council.

**Person Specification:**

- Essential qualifications: MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

- Desirable qualifications: Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management.

- Essential eligibility: Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.

- Desirable eligibility: In good standing with GMC/RCPsych.

**Salary:** £113,565 to £150,569 a year plus London weighting of £2162 per annum pro rata.

**Contract:** Permanent, full-time.

## Skills

### Required
- bio-psycho-social perspective
- wide medical knowledge
- excellent oral and written communication skills
- able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty

### Nice to have
- qualification or higher degree in medical education
- clinical research
- management
- MRCPsych
- additional clinical qualifications

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