Consultant: Sponsorship Available

West London NHS Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to lead an innovative new integrated community mental health service. You will play an integral role in further developing the service, teaching and training new team members and primary care staff and providing clinical and managerial leadership to the team.

The service is continually developing, and the configuration of staff and exact details of the post may change in order to facilitate this. We are advertising for two 6PA vacancies which are due to a combination of the existing post holder transferred to our community rehabilitation service and a historical vacancy caused by the previous consultant leaving the Trust to take up a Chief Medical Officer position. At present there is a plan for movement within the service to fill the other 6PA role in this team.

Main duties of the job

You will have a key role in a liaison/consultation model to provide early, easy access advice to GPs and the Primary Care Networks to support care of patients in the locality. GPs in the borough will be able to contact you via telephone or email for advice during working hours. You will also provide clinical leadership to the team in clinical multi-disciplinary team meetings and referrals meetings as well as being available for case discussions, advice and supervision within and outside team meetings. You will also have a role in the management of more complex cases, to offer senior assessments and more direct input in particular in risk and/or medication management and diagnostic assessments. This will also include Mental Health Act Assessments, CTO reviews and supporting the duty function of the team with urgent concerns and assessments. You will also share senior medical responsibility with job sharing consultant for the care carried out by the MINT team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable

  • MRCPsych
  • Additional clinical qualifications
  • Qualification or higher degree in clinical research or management

Eligibility

Essential

  • Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of appointment
  • GMC Specialist Register or within six months
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
  • Good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
  • Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Academic skills and lifelong learning

Essential

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Participation in continuing professional development
  • Active participation in clinical audit/quality improvement
  • Ability to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and to supervise junior/SAS medical staff

Desirable

  • Experience of clinical research or service evaluation
  • Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit or service improvement
  • Evidence of improving patient outcomes through service change or audit

Clinical knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent clinical skills
  • Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
  • Excellent knowledge in speciality

Desirable

  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

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: 21 October 2026

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