455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist– Trent ward

The closing date is 20 June 2025

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Trent ward, which is an 18-bed mixed acute psychiatric ward for service users of adult working age in the Dennis Scott Unit at Edgware Community Hospital in Barnet. The ward provides inpatient psychiatric assessments, treatment and care to help reduce risk of harm to self, health and others. The post is available since a previous substantive consultant moved to a different clinical area and has been covered by a locum consultant since then. This post offers 10 Programmed Activities per week - 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity. The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and prioritise. We offer 20K Welcome Hello Addition based on eligibility.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary team, working in close collaboration with the ward manager and other senior clinicians in the team. The ward is mixed sex psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years and above. It serves all of North Central London - so whilst patients will be primarily from Barnet, some will be from Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. The ward provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse.

Some patients may have treatment resistant psychosis including severe negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase Farm Hospital

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.

Date posted

21 May 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum plus London Weighting of £2,162 per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0076

Job locations

Dennis Scott Unit

Barnet Division

Burnt Oak Broadway

HA8 7AB

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership for the only female ward.

The post-holder will be expected:

To manage 18 adult inpatients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, many of whom will be detained under a section of the Mental Health Act (MHA)

To conduct assessments, request investigations and contribute to formulation of acutely unwell psychiatric inpatients

To formulate treatment plans and oversee implementation and evaluation of these treatment plans

To contribute to management of patient flow with a view to manage bed capacity effectively and avoid or flag up potential delayed transfers of care

To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures

To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work

To teach and supervise medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care

To participate in the trust-wide day-time consultant psychiatrist second on-call Rota (1:32) and the trustwide on call rota (see section 20, below).

To participate in the daily MDT Meeting and other regular ward or team meetings including staff supervision. To undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.

To take part in weekly Barnet discharge planning meetings and other regular meetings around patient flow involving locality and system colleagues.

To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities. and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.