# Consultant Psychiatrist

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy with excellent clinical, interpersonal, and risk management skills. The successful candidate will provide assessments, individual and/or group psychotherapy for patients, supervise a psychiatry specialist trainee in forensic psychotherapy, engage in the Clinic's other teaching and training programmes, offer consultancy to teams and organisations in the forensic field, and engage in clinical governance, audit, and outcome research.

The Portman Clinic is a NHS England commissioned national specialist outpatient clinic offering psychoanalytically orientated assessment, treatment, and management for children, adolescents, and adults who suffer from problematic sexual behaviours or engage in delinquent, criminal, or violent behaviour.

The post holder will work part-time, 6 programmed activities, 0900-1700, 3 days or flexible 4 days.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide clinical services and contribute to the consultancy, teaching, and research activities of the Clinic

- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with problematic sexual behaviours or delinquent, criminal, or violent behaviour

- Supervise a psychiatry specialist trainee in forensic psychotherapy

- Engage in the Clinic's teaching and training programmes

- Offer consultancy to teams and organisations in the forensic field

- Participate in clinical governance, audit, and outcome research

**Requirements:**

- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

- Experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and other therapeutic modalities

- Experience of working with forensic patients

- Experience of working with professional networks

- Experience of audit and outcome monitoring

- Experience of teaching and supervision

- Capacity to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team

- Good capacity to communicate with colleagues and clients

- Capacity to be in a leadership role

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 per year

- London Zone Weighting: £2,162 per year

## Skills

### Required
- psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- risk management
- clinical governance
- audit
- outcome research
- teaching
- supervision
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- MRCPsych
- Inclusion on The GMC's Specialist Register
- Section 12 Approval

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