Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - Community Recovery Team North

Job overview

We are seeking a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to join the Community Recovery Team North in Newham. This is a rare opportunity to work in an integrated community and inpatient service. The Community Recovery Team serves adults with serious mental illness residing in the North of the borough. It is a well-established service which  seamless and integrated mental health care between inpatients and the community.

Newham also hosts a WHO Collaborating Centre (the only one specifically for Mental Health Service Development in the world) and the successful applicant will have opportunities for academic links with the Centre, and its large research group in social psychiatry and global mental health. The successful candidate will be enrolled on the Trusts highly regarded Improvement Science in Action training and will be encouraged to contribute to our unique Quality Improvement programme.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will have overall clinical responsibility for service users on their caseload in their CRT sub-team and sector inpatients. They will lead on the delivery of high quality care in all settings; ensure policies and procedures are followed; develop close working links with GP colleagues in order to provide integrated holistic care; and develop close working links with the acute locality treatment wards ensuring the right care is provided in the right setting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information.