Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust .The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) aims to provide an enhanced service for people diagnosed with serious mental illness and to deliver evidence-based interventions and care while increasing service user and carer satisfaction. AOT adopts an assertive and proactive way of working, utilising a whole-team approach to provide continuity of care and encourage creativity in engagement and positive risk taking. The AO multidisciplinary team provides most interventions from within the team and delivers care wherever is required and most appropriate.The postholder will provide clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team. They will work with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care is provided that supports the whole healthcare system. The postholder will work with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives.The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King\''s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP supports seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees 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 advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.orgThe Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatient-based services and a broad range of staff across disciplines. It provides mental health services to Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and substance misuse services for several areas, with CAMHS services for Kent. It also provides tertiary specialist services and has partnerships with clinical services and educational programmes 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\".For further details or informal visits contact: Dr Daniel Meek, Associate Medical Director - Southwark, email: daniel.meek@slam.nhs.uk

Responsibilities

Provide clinical leadership for the Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) multidisciplinary team.Collaborate with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care that supports the whole healthcare system.Work with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives.

About the Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King\''s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and provides a wide range of mental health services within London and to clients from across the UK, with partnerships internationally.

Qualifications/Requirements

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