Job responsibilities The postholders principal duties will be to provide clinical leadership for patients accessing the Brent Perinatal Service. They will act as the Responsible Clinician.The post-holder will agree with their fellow consultant colleagues to ensure senior cross cover to manage leave.The postholder will provide leadership for the performance culture of the service, ensuring best practice is employed, and that the Trusts quality and productivity targets are met.A key feature of the service is to be delivered by an integrated multi-disciplinary team with a shared sense of ownership of the clinical services provided and the scrutiny of quality.The postholder will adopt a pragmatic leadership style as a way of promoting this type of high quality service, thus ensuring collaborative working both at a clinical and an operational level.The postholder will be expected to participate in quality enhancement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to undertake any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.Together with the Service Manager the postholder will provide overall clinical leadership for the Multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations for the Team, including the following: Medical input, consultation and clinical leadership, and overall clinical responsibility for patients in the service. Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for patients. Clinical supervision of 1 Specialty Grade doctor working with the team. Regular clinical liaison with a range of Community Consultants and Community Mental Health teams and the HTT teams to ensure timely discharge of patients.