North London Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an
enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Daisy Ward, which
is an 18-bed female acute psychiatric ward in the new Blossom Court
inpatient unit in St Ann’s Hospital in Haringey. 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 priorities.
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 a female only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years
and above. It serves all of North Central London – so whilst patients
will be primarily from Haringey, some will be from Barnet and
Enfield and on occasion from Camden or 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
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:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. 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.
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 for Health Based Place of Safety situated at
Chase Farm Hospital (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 Haringey 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.
• As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance
of the team, further development of the service, and the
development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the
service.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025