Consultant Psychiatrist - CMHT4 Lewisham | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking, enthusiastic, full time, substantive Consultant Psychiatrists to lead a Community Mental health team in the London Borough of Lewisham.

The Community Mental Health Service’s work is to provide long term treatments for patients with complex and enduring mental health problems. The team accepts patients with all diagnoses and so there will be variety in the presentations that you manage. The majority of the patients in this team will be managed under the Care Programme Approach. CMHT Neighbourhood 4’s total caseload currently stands at 263, with the caseload split by GP sectors.

As the consultant you will be expected to undertake CPA reviews for your caseload as well as arrange follow up appointments as necessary. The team will have a small number of patients subject to section 17A Mental Health Act (1983/2007) (community treatment orders) and so you will be the Responsible Clinician for these cases. The role will also involve liaising with GP’s and other stakeholders including patients and carers, team governance meetings, service development and quality improvement work.

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical cover for other Lewisham borough consultants and vice versa.

For more details regarding the post please refer to the Job description attached.

The main duties of the consultant are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and to act as Approved Clinician to the Community Mental Health Team N4, and to support the Team Leader and Clinical Service Lead.

Close liaison with primary care will be a key part of the role. You will need to work directly with GPs and other stakeholders. The Lead clinician for community teams, Dr Dominic Cottrell and the AMD for Lewisham, Dr Hugh Williams will support you and the team with regard to stakeholder engagement and addressing any interface issues.

You will be expected to provide consultant input for Community Mental Health Team Neighbourhood 4 in which you will have a sector, based upon GP practice, for whom you will be the senior clinician. You will work alongside one other consultant psychiatrist who also work for the Neighbourhood, so there is scope for support and cross cover. There is also the benefit of having other consultants with whom you can discuss challenging cases. The co-location of teams will allow the post holder to work alongside several other psychiatrists with the benefits of cross cover this will allow.

For further details regarding this post please refer to the attached JD.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars

To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the Clinical Service Lead

• To take consultant responsibility for your sector of the Neighbourhood Community Mental Health team, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
• In conjunction with the Team Leader, will help to represent the unit at CAG and care pathway meetings and other internal and external meetings where needed.

For further details regarding this post please refer to attached JD.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Jun 2026