Specialty Doctor – Liaison Psychiatry: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 63,696 to 102,689 £ / Year

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Specialty Doctor –Liaison Psychiatry

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full time – 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week), part time considered

Site:Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB

The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Liaison Psychiatry at Kingston Hospital. In this post the Specialty Doctor will participate in the work of the liaison psychiatry team in a large, general teaching hospital. He/she will undertake supervised psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients referred by non-psychiatric teams from Kingston Hospital.

Patients are referred from all wards and clinical areas within the hospital, including new presentations of functional and organic illness, as well as patients with established mental disorders who have been admitted for medical or surgical treatment.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work managing mental disorders in this setting, including prescribing for patients with altered metabolism, and delivering brief psychological interventions.

The post-holder will conduct and supervise psychiatric assessment and management of deliberate self-harm and psychiatric emergencies presenting in the Accident and Emergency department, as well as hospital wards.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential

  • Primary Medical degree
  • Full GMC registration.
  • At least 4 years postgraduate medical experience, of which at least 2 years working in psychiatry
  • Eligible for S12 approval and able to obtain this within 6 months of appointment

Desirable

  • MRCPsych or equivalent
  • Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act

KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE:

Essential

  • Experience of general adult psychiatry.
  • Assessment of simple or complex mental illness
  • Assessment of comorbid physical ill-health
  • Teamwork -Communication -Ongoing commitment to CPD

Desirable

  • Experience of liaison psychiatry
  • Experience of inpatient psychiatry
  • Experience of crisis & home treatment
  • Teaching experience
  • Experience of managing physical and mental disorder at a middle-grade level
  • Evidence of active engagement in audit/ quality improvement
  • Evidence of recent appraisal

PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS:

Essential

  • Ability to remain calm under pressure Ability to inspire others Ability to provide good clinical leadership Ability to effect change Ability to negotiate and collaborate with first, second and third sector organisations to identify shared agendas and meet common goals
  • Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from allied disciplines Willingness to take on a fair share of Trustwide duties
  • Commitment to personal, team and service development
  • Ability to work co-operatively in multi- disciplinary teams Ability to manage and adapt to change

Desirable

  • Personal experience of mental illness Personal experience of social distress
  • Evidence of helping others who have suffered physical, mental or social misfortune Evidence of seeking feedback as a way of improving one’s skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 20 September 2026

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