Consultant in General Adult Community Psychiatry

Job Overview

• CNWL are currently looking for a full time permanent Consultant Psychiatrist, to provide input to a high functioning community
• mental health team as part of a multi-disciplinary service (South Kensington Mental Health Hub -CMHH).
• The role is to provide a comprehensive assessment and NICE
• concordant treatment to all patients requiring secondary community mental health services input.
• AAC to be held on 4-Dec-2026
• *Job Description pending Royal College approval*
• Main duties of the job

This post is a full time (1.00 WTE - 10 sessions) Consultant Psychiatrist replacement post in our South Community Mental Health Hub (CMHH). The South K&C Community Mental Health Hub is based at 1 Nightingale Place and at Violet Melchatt, 30 Flood Walk (the triage function of the SK&C CMHH).

The team is multi-disciplinary and well resourced. It consists of two PCNs (Brompton PCN and South Kensington and Chelsea PCN). The South Hub team’s caseload is around 600-650 patients. It receives on average 25-30 new referrals per week and approximately around 100-120 patients are transferred back to primary care per month. The team works closely with St Charles Hospital (inpatient unit) and HTT to ensure that there is appropriate throughput through the services.

Working for our organisation

Kensington and Chelsea is an inner London area with a mixed, diverse population with some of the most wealthy and most deprived areas of London. There is a high mental health morbidity and the North west London ICB is committed to a high spend on mental health services.

Kensington and Chelsea (K&C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults across the age range within the community and in hospital settings.

These services are based at

• St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards: two adult PICUs, four adult acute wards, two Older Adult wards and Mental Health Crisis Assessment unit (MHCAS)
• Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy services
• older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services based at South Kensington site, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with health psychology services
• KCW Early Intervention Service
• K&C Home Treatment Team (HTT)
• Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)
• Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapies
• Re-FoCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post holder will have principal duties to provide clinical care to Kensington and Chelsea patients under South CMHH. They will be supported by the MDT team that includes a Specialist Registrar, and a Core resident doctor (CT1-3), a Foundation year doctor (FY) as well as other professionals such as pharmacist, psychologists, occupational therapists and employment specialists.

The post holder will provide joint leadership with the manager, for the performance culture of the team, ensuring best practice is employed, and that the Trust’s quality and productivity targets are met. They will promote good clinical care for all patients for both their mental health and physical health. The post holder will adopt a pragmatic leadership style, thus ensuring collaborative working both at a clinical and an operational level.

The post holder will be expected to participate in Quality Improvement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to support any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.

Together with the team manager and another Consultant colleague, the post holder will provide overall clinical leadership for the South K&C Community Mental Health Hub’s multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations including the following:

• Medical input, consultation, clinical leadership and overall RC responsibility for patients.
• Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for all patients under care of South CMHH
• Responsible Clinician with responsibilities of attendance at and report-writing for Mental Health Tribunals and Managers hearings.
• Regular clinical liaison with the Inpatient Consultants, other Community Mental Health Teams and the Home Treatment Team.

Mental Health Act and Responsible Clinician Approval

• The post holder would be expected to be accredited as an Approved Clinician or achieve this within 3 months of commencement.
• The post-holder would be expected to be approved under Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.

Teaching Commitments

To include

• An active role in the postgraduate teaching programme, which consists of a local academic meeting on Wednesday lunchtime. This meeting includes a Journal Club and case presentations.
• Teaching of medical students who regularly attend ward rounds as part of their psychiatric experience. Support is also given to work experience students when applicable.
• Supervision of the resident doctors allocated to the team. This must meet Royal College of Psychiatrists’ standards of clinical and educational supervision.

Management

• The post holder will be a member of the Medical Staff Committee of CNWL.
• The post holder will be expected to take part in various committees and project teams relating to service developments. This will be done in discussion with the Borough and Clinical Directors.

On-call Responsibilities

• The Consultant will participate in the KCW wide consultants’ non-resident on-call rota and abide by the on-call policy. This is a low intensity rota with a current frequency of 1:14 (pro rata) and attracts a 3% on-call supplement.
• ST4-6 and specialty doctors provide second on-call cover on a rota basis. Consultants provide clinical supervision for doctors in training grades on-call on an “as required” basis. Supervision for broader training issues arising out of on-call work is normally raised with the trainee’s designated educational supervisor.
• First on-call cover is provided by Core trainees and GPVTS

Person specification

Educational And Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration
• Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)
• Section 12 MHA Approved
• AC approval

Desirable criteria

• MRCPsych (or equivalent)
• Higher degree (MSc, LLM, MD or PhD)
• Management and leadership training
• Management qualification and/or extensive knowledge and expertise acquired through training and experience up to doctoral level.

General Knowledge/Experience & Core Skills

Essential criteria

• Experience of assessment and treatment of mental disorders in an acute psychiatric setting
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
• Proficient in risk assessment and management.
• Experience of use of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act in an inpatient psychiatric setting
• Evidence of completed clinical audit projects
• Evidence of undergraduate and postgraduate trainee teaching

Desirable criteria

• Experience of service development/business planning
• Completed research projects
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• High level knowledge of planned developments at a national level to improve efficiency and deliver quality services
• Experience of teaching non-medical staff/carers

Other attributes

Essential criteria

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Sound organisational skills

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of evidence based medicine training, teaching and implementation
• Training and experience of relevant therapies
• Demonstration of ability to innovative practice and service improvement