Consultant Psychiatrist, Perinatal - East Surrey

This Post is for a passionate Consultant Psychiatrist who will be responsible for providing clinical input and leadership to the East perinatal mental health team based at Horizon House, Epsom & working alongside a multidisciplinary team in line with New Ways of Working.

The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides a multidisciplinary, comprehensive community specialist service for assessing & treating women with psychosis & other severe mental illnesses in pregnancy and postnatally across the county of Surrey.

The post-holder will be responsible for overseeing the clinical care of those women residing or registered with a GP within the Epsom & Ewell, Mole Valley, Tandridge, Reigate, Banstead, & Redhill NHS CCGS or receiving maternity care at Epsom & St Helier or Surrey & Sussex Hospitals

If you want to make a meaningful difference to people's lives & support the integration of mental & physical health care, we'd love to hear from you!, The postholder will share medical responsibility with other consultant perinatal psychiatrists for providing high-quality clinical care across the perinatal service. This includes assessments of women's mental health & mother-infant relationships & related risks, bio-psycho-social diagnostic formulations, exploration of prevention, treatment & care options, clear communication & shared decision-making with patients (and families as appropriate), communication & joint planning with other professionals & agencies by the most effective means, use of proper legal statutes & powers where necessary for good patient care.

Provide regular clinical supervision to junior doctors working or training in the service & clinical advice & information as & when required to all staff. Actively contribute to quality improvement activities in the service, including national audits and benchmarking.

Participate in the on-call rota with other Consultant staff as agreed in the job plan.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.