Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed consultant psychiatrist to work in a specialist perinatal service, providing flexible clinical leadership and consultant responsibility and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team including an existing consultant. The post holder will provide clinical work specifically in the Lewisham Perinatal Community Mental Health Service in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).
Clinical Need
The Lewisham Perinatal Community Mental Health Service within SLaM has received 489 referrals in 2024/2025. The catchment area covers women living in Lewisham. The service also provides urgent reviews to women living out of area who are inpatient in a maternity ward on behalf of other perinatal services.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership and consultant input into the Lewisham Perinatal team.
- Participate in the framework of Clinical Governance as it develops in Psychological Medicine CAG and across the trust.
- Take consultant responsibility for Community / Liaison Perinatal Team patients, assessing or supervising assessment of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes and providing prompt medical response for those patients under their direct care and advise and work closely with other members of the MDT.
- Deliver on the quality and outcomes set by the PMOA directorate care pathways.
- Provide Section 12 responsibilities under Mental Health Act to patients where necessary or appropriate.
- Review patients on the case load on a regular basis and in line with changes in new ways of working as they develop within local services.
- Provide intensive and expert intervention and management of acutely ill patients under the care of the team.
- Work flexibly with other consultants across the boroughs to ensure good transitions of care for patients delivering at Lewisham University Hospital and living in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham.
- Offer advice and provide clinical and educational supervision to the resident ST in the Perinatal Team, and if covering for another perinatal consultant to offer clinical advice to CTs and STs in other perinatal teams.
- Offer expert risk assessment and management skills.
- Promote and advocate for the principles and practice of Perinatal Psychiatry in the local and national arena.
- Work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti‑discriminatory practice.
- Deliver Service Line management working with the team leader, Clinical Service Lead and Clinical Lead.
- Liaise with and advise General Practitioners concerning service users subject to CPA.
- Participate in training for medical students, FYs, CT and STs in SLaM.
- Provide reciprocal cover under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff within the Community Perinatal Service.
- Encourage and lead as appropriate service‑based research and teaching.
- Educate and train midwives and health visitors.
- Provide clinical advice to colleagues.
- Maintain help to address clinical governance issues within the Community Perinatal Service and work alongside national standards for these services.
- Participate in the collection of outcomes measures and performance metrics for the service.
- Agree and regularly review job plan objectives with the Associate Medical Director and Clinical Lead.
- Carry a mobile during work hours and be contactable by members of the team.
- Participate in, contribute to service audit and service evaluation.
- Attend audit/academic/management meetings appropriate to the needs of the service.
- External duties to include participation in Pan London and national Perinatal Psychiatry events, Royal College Psychiatry peer review and accreditation of perinatal services, annual RCPsych Perinatal Psychiatry Scientific day; Marce Society events.
- Annual leave will be agreed with the Clinical Director and Lead Clinician and communicated promptly to the Community Team Manager.
Other Duties
Contribute to the National Units Consultant on‑call out of hours rota; participate in the perinatal consultant day rota (working hours Mon‑Fri 9‑5 pm) for telephone advice one day per week; cover the Consultant Colleagues at the Mother & Baby Unit.
Equal Opportunities
All employees are subject to the Trust Equal Opportunity Policy and must not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national grounds, marital status, disability or any other grounds.
All employees are subject to the requirements of the Data Protection Act, and must maintain strict confidentiality in respect to patient and staff records.
All employees are subject to the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and must comply with the Trust’s health and safety policy.
Contact & Closing
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Apr 2026.
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