Consultant in General Adult Community Psychiatry

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, 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.

Kensington and Chelsea is an inner London area with a mixed, diverse population with some of the most wealthy and most deprived areas of London. There is a high mental health morbidity and the North west London ICB is committed to a high spend on mental health services.Kensington and Chelsea (K&C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults across the age range within the community and in hospital settings.

These services are based at:o St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards: two adult PICUs, four adult acute wards, two Older Adult wards and Mental Health Crisis Assessment unit (MHCAS)o Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy serviceso older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services based at South Kensington site, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with health psychology serviceso KCW Early Intervention Serviceo K&C Home Treatment Team (HTT)o Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)o Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapieso Re-FoCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House

£113,565 to £150,569 a year plus £2162 London weighting per annum pro rata