Patient Specialist Doctor - Acute Adult Inpatients; Highgate West

We have one full-time in-patient specialist doctor post in the Hospital Division, based in the Highgate (West) Mental Health Centre. In the Highgate West Mental Health Centre there are ten wards: two Psychiatric Intensive Care Units and eight treatment wards. The post would be based mainly on one ward, but with occasional weekend work (approximately 1 in 6 – yet to be decided).

The weekend work would be 9am to 5pm and the role would be to provide senior doctor input to help with 7 day flow and patient safety. The post is in the Acute Adult Inpatients Service of the Trust. It is based at both the Highgate (West) Mental Health Centre, Dartmouth Park Road, London, N19 5NX
. Each acute ward has sixteen or seventeen beds. Each PICU has twelve beds. In addition there is a Place of Safety and Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service on the site.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

For further details / informal visits contact:
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Dr Saira Chowdhary

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