Consultant - London, United Kingdom - West London NHS Trust

West London NHS Trust
West London NHS Trust
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We are delighted to go out for substantive recruitment for the post of Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist.

The successful applicant will take up the clinical leadership for the Tri-borough Complex Emotional Needs service, working closely with both our MINT community mental health services and specialist psychotherapy services.

The service will comprise a stand-alone team working with a small number of patients presenting with complex emotional needs.

They will work closely with our MINT Teams which are fully integrated mental health team with a visible presence in the local Primary Care Network.


The MINT teams operate with a tiered or stepped care model where a more primary care ethos and model of delivery will be used for the majority of patients but those who have more complex needs will have more enhanced support from an allocated clinician as well as the multidisciplinary team.

The CEN team will work with a small number of patients who find engagement in planned care services challenging and CEN will work alongside the MINT teams to enable and facilitate engagement with the wide range of therapeutic offer from MINT and psychotherapy services.

The majority of the work is community based. The post holder is the clinical lead for the service. S/he will provide direct clinical care with the assessment and treatment of people with complex mental health needs.

The post holder will carry a case load and will provide supervision for team members, honorary staff and medical trainees attached to the department.

The post holder will also provide consultations as requested to the wider service within local services.


Direct clinical care will include supporting the clinical decision making within MINT through the Complex Case meetings and oversight of the Network Meetings which include psychotherapy representation.


West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.


Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.

We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.


We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).


Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.


We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Provide Consultant input and contribute as member of the clinical leadership team of the Complex Emotional Needs service.

Provide Consultant input to triage system for referrals into CEN service as required.

Provide clinical assessments of patients as necessary.

Assist with diagnosis, medication reviews, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and safety plans for patients with complex emotional needs within the service.

Provide follow up as necessary for patients within teams.


When acting as Approved Clinician to take consultant responsibility and oversee assessment and management of patients, including medication regimes, advising and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team.


Work with CEN service to develop a collaborative care model for patients with presentations falling within the remit of the team, working closely with the Leads in Psychotherapy and Psychological Therapies to integrate input from psychotherapy and clinical psychology in the care of patients under MINT.


Support the MDT in their diagnosis, management and treatment of patients through case discussions, joint consultations supervision and bespoke training.

Maintain effective communication with GPs, patients and their carers.

To provide clinical input to multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex patients.

Provide supervision to trainees.


To support the Service/Team manager in monitoring and assessing the performance of the team, the further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and priorities of the service line.

The post holder will be Section 12(2) approved and have approved clinician status.

They will participate in the West London consultant on call rota and will act as RC/AC for patients on Community Treatment Order in the service.


Work in partnership with the leadership team on all aspects of service development, assuring a safe system of practice for all clinical components of the service.

The post holder will have 10 PAs.

The overall split of the programmed activities is 7.5 PAs direct clinical care, and 2.5 PAs of Supporting Professional Activities.

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