Job Description

The post offered is that of Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry (10PAs), working in the Barnet South Core Community Team. The team is aligned to the Primary Care GP Locality in the South of the Borough. The post holder will share consultant lead responsibilities with one full-time substantive consultant in the service, ensuring high quality, patient-centered, effective and safe care is delivered by the team. This post will have responsibility for adults with complex mental health presentations. The South Team is one of three adult core community teams (previously known as locality teams) within Barnet (North, South and West). The team is multi-disciplinary and consists of professionals from a number of backgrounds including nursing, social work, psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, graduate mental health workers and community engagement workers and are supported by a dedicated admin team. The care delivered is recovery-focused which involves a change in focus from managing problems and symptoms to focusing on an individual's strengths and goals for the future. The service aims to assist individuals to be in control of your own life and seek out opportunities beyond their condition.



The service is for adults experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and who may also have complex needs that would be best met by secondary mental health services. This includes individuals experiencing the following conditions: schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, severe depression, anxiety, personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorders. This is an exciting time to join the Trust as there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations' development and contribute to service redesign.



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.



A more detailed job description is attached. There is support for newly appointed consultants in the StartWell group. As part of this the post holder will have the opportunity of having a more senior consultant as a mentor. The post holder will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the Barnet South Core Community Mental Health Team. The post holder will provide assessment of new patients and clinical supervision of assessments carried out by other team members; making formulations using a biopsychosocial model. Ensuring evidence-based practice that is patient centered in recovery principles. The post holder will provide clinical and professional leadership in the Team and will take part in management activities related to the post and the wider service within which it is embedded. Service development and quality improvement in line with the Trust's vision, values and objectives are core responsibilities. The post holder is expected to maintain compliance with all legal obligations as prescribed by the Mental Health Act (MHA) and the Ministry of Justice. The post holder is expected to assess patients under the MHA and make recommendations under the MHA and to act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for patients detained under a S17A Mental Health Act 1983 (Community Treatment Order).