Job summary
Employer heading
Locum Appointment - Junior Clinical Fellow (CT1-2 equiv)
Locum Appointment/Junior Clinical Fellow
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The resident will work in a Psychiatric Mother & Baby Unit, working with a multidisciplinary team. They will be involved in the assessment and management of women with a range of severe psychiatric illness through pregnancy and postpartum period. This will include admission, review, participation to psychological or psychotherapeutic treatments.
The post holder will participate in, and document ward rounds and ensure the appropriate clinical documentation is completed upon discharge. They will liaise with allied professionals where involved.
Main duties of the job
- Opportunity to enhance skills in biological treatments
- Prescribing during pregnancy and breast feeding.
- Psychological interventions, working alongside developmental psychologist and adult psychologist, as well as other disciplines.
- May run groups.
- Enhance knowledge of children and adult safeguarding, as well as wide exposure to the use of the Mental Health Act, tribunals and court attendance.
- Some out patients experience also available during post.
- Opportunities to undertake audit, quality improvement outcome measures, research and teaching.
Working for our organisation
The Perinatal Mental Health Service accepts referrals from Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon Boroughs, as well as accepting referrals from other Trusts nationally.
The primary educational objective of this post is for the post-holder to become competent in the assessment and management of patients who become acutely unwell in late pregnancy and first postnatal year, with a view to learning about infant development and parent-infant relationship.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Opportunity to enhance skills in biological treatments
- Prescribing during pregnancy and breast feeding.
- Psychological interventions, working alongside developmental psychologist and adult psychologist, as well as other disciplines.
- Trainee may run groups.
- Enhance knowledge of children and adult safeguarding, as well as wide exposure to the use of the Mental Health Act, tribunals and court attendance.
- Some out patients experience also available during post.
- Opportunities to undertake audit, quality improvement outcome measures, research and teaching.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Fully registered with the General Medical Council (A)
- • Certificate of completion of Foundation Programme (FY1 and FY2) (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- • Research at undergraduate or postgraduate level (A)
- • Training in psychiatry (A)
Exeprience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in post registration house jobs in the UK (A/I)
- • Ability to relate with non-medical staff effectively (A/I)
- • Ability to gain confidence of patients (A/I)
- • Ability to manage time and prioritise workload (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic populations (A)
- • Postgraduate qualification in medical or related spheres (A)
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of current issues in psychiatry (A/I)
- • Interest in psychiatry and desire to explore this career option (A/I)
- • Willing to take instruction and work flexibly (A/I)
- • Excellent communication skills (I)
- • Ability to get on with colleagues (I)
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in inpatient psychiatry (A)
- •Experience of working in the NHS (A)
- •Previous evidence of an interest in, or a commitment to, psychiatry (A/I)
- •Commitment to working with members of the ethnic minority populations (A)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Livia Martucci
- Job title
- Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
- Email address
- livia.martucci@slam.nhs.uk
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