Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The Low Intensity Team will be a single team working across the borough providing care for service users who were open to CMHTs are stable in mental state and no longer require a multi-disciplinary approach, whose medication cannot be prescribed by a GP, have been admission free for a minimum of 9 months and have secure accommodation.

Clinical duties of post holder

The post provides consultant medical leadership and support to LIT. The post holder would provide senior medical input into the Neighbourhood CMHTs. This is to enable continuity of care across the neighbourhood with a focus on good working relationships with GPs.

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver ground breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatient based services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skills and interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme in Europe, the Middle East and China,

The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.

Within LIT the role of the consultant is to provide medical reviews and provide clinical leadership to care coordinators for service-users with complex needs, patient centred care planning with regular care planning meetings, MDT discussions around complex needs, medical and psychosocial interventions. You would provide supervision to the multidisciplinary team as a whole and liaison with primary care.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jun 2026