Consultant in General Adult Community Psychiatry: Sponsorship Available

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

CNWL are currently looking for a full time permanent Consultant Psychiatrist, to provideinput to a high functioning communitymental health team as part of a multi-disciplinary service (South Kensington Mental Health Hub -CMHH).

The role is to provide a comprehensive assessment and NICEconcordant treatment to all patients requiring secondary community mental health services input.

AAC to be held on 4-Dec-2026

*Job Description pending Royal College approval*

Main duties of the job

This post is a full time (1.00 WTE – 10 sessions) Consultant Psychiatrist replacement post in our South Community Mental Health Hub (CMHH). The South K&C Community Mental Health Hub is based at 1 Nightingale Place and at Violet Melchatt, 30 Flood Walk (the triage function of the SK&C CMHH).

The team is multi-disciplinary and well resourced. It consists of two PCNs (Brompton PCN and South Kensington and Chelsea PCN). The South Hub team’s caseload is around 600-650 patients. It receives on average 25-30 new referrals per week and approximately around 100-120 patients are transferred back to primary care per month. The team works closely with St Charles Hospital (inpatient unit) and HTT to ensure that there is appropriate throughput through the services.

Person Specification

Educational and Professional Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary Medical Degree
  • Full GMC Registration
  • Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)
  • Section 12 MHA Approved
  • AC approval

Desirable

  • MRCPsych (or equivalent)
  • Higher degree (MSc, LLM, MD or PhD)
  • Management and leadership training
  • Management qualification and/or extensive knowledge and expertise acquired through training and experience up to doctoral level.

General knowledge/Experience & Core skills

Essential

  • Experience of assessment and treatment of mental disorders in an acute psychiatric setting
  • Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
  • Proficient in risk assessment and management.
  • Experience of use of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act in an inpatient psychiatric setting
  • Evidence of completed clinical audit projects
  • Evidence of undergraduate and postgraduate trainee teaching

Desirable

  • Experience of service development/business planning
  • Completed research projects
  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals
  • High level knowledge of planned developments at a national level to improve efficiency and deliver quality services
  • Experience of teaching non-medical staff/carers

Other attributes

Essential

  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Sound organisational skills

Desirable

  • Evidence of evidence based medicine training, teaching and implementation
  • Training and experience of relevant therapies
  • Demonstration of ability to innovative practice and service improvement

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: 15 November 2026

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