# Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - CIMHS

**Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an opportunity to join a well-established general adult community mental health team in Newham. The Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) is a multi-disciplinary primary care facing service providing both brief and longer-term care to service users with complex mental health needs.

The main duties of the job include:

- Providing comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and medical management of patients

- Delivering comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans

- Conducting mental state examinations

- Making clinical diagnoses

- Initiating and reviewing pharmacological treatments

- Leading multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation, and management of individual's risk

- Conducting physical health assessments

- Making referrals to other services

- Liaising with GP, community, and forensic services

- Reviewing clinical progress and care plans

- Assessing readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning

- Participating in safeguarding planning processes

- Consulting and liaising with families and carers

- Liaising with the criminal justice system, police, Courts, and probation when required

The salary for this position ranges from £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.

The ideal candidate will have:

- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise

- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months

- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

- MRCPsych or equivalent

- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

Desirable qualifications include:

- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management

- Formal leadership/management training

Essential skills include:

- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge

- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty

- Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery

The Trust offers a range of benefits, including opportunities for professional development and a supportive working environment.

## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- Specialist Register
- MRCPsych
- clinical skills
- teamwork
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- medical education
- clinical research
- management
- leadership
- formal leadership/management training

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