This is a full-time, one-year Junior Clinical Fellow Float Doctor post in Psychiatry with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, based in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham or Southwark. The role involves working across different psychiatry services, such as inpatient, crisis, community, rehabilitation, and other specialist teams, depending on service needs, while also joining the on-call rota. It offers broad clinical experience alongside protected time for professional development, including opportunities in quality improvement, research, teaching, and other non-clinical psychiatry-related work.
Thee main duties are to manage inpatients or the team caseload and the day-to-day workload of the service, attend ward rounds, team meetings and CPA meetings, carry out risk assessments and develop risk management and care plans, monitor patients’ physical health including examinations and investigations, liaise with GPs and other internal and external professionals, attend external patient meetings when needed, make safeguarding referrals, and maintain accurate clinical records including reports, letters, discharge summaries, and electronic notes. The role also includes taking part in audit, research, quality improvement, service development, teaching, team meetings, and reflective practice.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is a large, academically linked, and development-focused place to work. It offers a very broad range of mental health services across several boroughs, strong links with King’s Health Partners and the Institute of Psychiatry, and clear opportunities for research, teaching, quality improvement, and career development. The document also presents the Trust as valuing innovation, staff wellbeing, equality, and flexible working, with benefits such as counselling support, wellbeing services, training opportunities, pensions, leave, and other staff perks. Overall, it comes across as a busy but supportive organisation with lots of opportunities to learn and grow.
This is a full-time, one-year Junior Clinical Fellow Float Doctor post in Psychiatry with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, based in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham or Southwark. The role is designed to fill service gaps across different psychiatry settings, so the post holder may rotate between inpatient, community, crisis, rehabilitation, and other specialist teams, gaining broad clinical experience while also joining the on-call rota. The main responsibilities include managing patients and team caseloads, attending ward rounds and meetings, carrying out risk assessments, developing care plans, monitoring physical health, liaising with GPs and other agencies, making safeguarding referrals, and keeping accurate clinical records. In addition, the role includes contributing to audit, research, quality improvement, service development, teaching, and reflective practice, with protected time each week for professional development.
