Job Description

This substantive post is that of Consultant Psychiatrist with the North Islington Community Recovery and Rehabilitation Team (6 PAs). This is a replacement post following the previous consultant taking up a different role elsewhere. National terms and conditions apply to this post. Inner London Weighting applies. This role will develop as we move forward with implementing the community mental health framework The Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF) and will become known as the "Psychosis pathway" in the new model.



As a Consultant Psychiatrist you will be involved in leading future developments and implementing the North London mental health trusts clinical strategy



The post holder will work 6 PAs in the North Islington Recovery & Rehabilitation Team, a community mental health team that treats people with psychotic illnesses. The North Islington Recovery Team is part of the care pathway for patients in HoNOS care clusters 11, 12 and 13, i.e., patients with psychotic illnesses. The care pathway applies the recovery model of care. It delivers evidence-based treatments to patients living in the northern part of Islington. The team is based at: 1 Lowther Road, London N7 8US, and is co-located with the Core Team, The Personality Disorder Team and the Community Rehab Team. The team operates between 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.



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.



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

We Are Kind



We Are Respectful



We Work Together



We Keep Things Simple



We Empower



We Are Proudly Diverse



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.



NLFT is a major mental health service provider in North London, delivering care and support to 1.8 million people and also providing a range of more specialist mental health services to a wider population across London, surrounding counties and some national services.

Services include:

General Adult Services (Inpatient Services, Crisis Services, Community Services, Talking Therapies) Rehabilitation Services Children and Young People's Mental Health Services Older Adult Mental Health Services Learning Disabilities and Autism Services.

Our specialist services include Forensic and Prisons Services, Substance Misuse Services, Eating Disorders Services, and Veterans' Mental Health Services.



We provide services to an extremely diverse population across the five boroughs of North London, each of which contains a range of population groups and within communities where of wider socio-economic determinants of health vary significantly, for example in housing, education, and employment status. determinants of health vary significantly, for example in housing, education, and employment status.