Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient & Hackney

Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

The role includes providing the RC cover, focusing on consultant level assessment of any new admissions that have taken place, actively supporting an effective interface between the ward, HTT and the community teams to facilitate safe early discharges from the inpatient unit, actively engaging with the relevant community teams, providing clinical leadership for the MDT on the ward, leading ward and management rounds and undertaking relevant reviews of inpatients, supporting the bed management processes and maintaining high quality care for the patients on the ward.

Joshua ward has a full multi‑disciplinary team. In addition to the inpatient consultant psychiatrist the medical team consists of:

• 8 WTE higher trainee doctor (0.2 working in the community team)
• 1 WTE core trainee
• 0.8 to 1 WTE GPVTS trainee (depending on rotations)

The ward has an average of 15 admissions per month. There is management support from the Associate Clinical Director (Dr Victoria Cohen), who reports to the Clinical Director (Dr Olivier Andlauer).

Closing date :
4th January 2026

Interview date (AAC panel) :
20th January 2026

This is a full‑time post. The post‑holder will provide consultant leadership, supervision, and support to the inpatient team. They will work with the ward manager and modern matron to deliver high quality inpatient treatment to the population of male adults living in West Hackney and who require inpatient admission.

They will contribute to the overall management and service development of Joshua Ward. The post‑holder will coordinate leave and cover arrangements for the patients they have RC responsibility for, with the other inpatient consultants, and occasionally with community consultant psychiatrists. We are keen to develop clinical and medical leadership.

The post‑holder will:

• Contribute as a senior member of staff to service development within Joshua Ward
• Offer consultations, assessments & appropriate treatments to people living in City & Hackney and requiring a hospital admission.
• Develop close links with other Acute Wards and Community teams, including newly established Neighbourhoods Mental Health Teams.
• Work with service users to develop service user input to service delivery and development.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues, notably resident doctors.
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and the implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent
• Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act) and eligible to be temporarily (whilst acting‑up) on the register of Approved Clinicians (MHA, 2007).
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

• Ability to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Excellent clinical skills using bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to contribute to service planning, development, and management
• Formal leadership/management training

• Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult mental health service.
• An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation

• Excellent experience of operation of acute adult mental health service
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