Patient Specialist Doctor - Acute Adult Inpatients; Highgate West

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hospital Division, Highgate West Town London Salary £100,870 - £111,441 Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/02/2026 23:59

We have one full-time in-patient specialist doctor post in the Hospital Division, based in the Highgate (West) Mental Health Centre. In the Highgate West Mental Health Centre there are ten wards: two Psychiatric Intensive Care Units and eight treatment wards. The post would be based mainly on one ward, but with occasional weekend work (approx. 1 in 6
-yet to be decided). The weekend work would be 9am to 5pm and the role would be to provide senior doctor input to help with 7 day flow and patient safety.

The post is in the Acute Adult Inpatients Service of the Trust. It is based at both the Highgate (West) Mental Health Centre, Dartmouth Park Road, London, N19 5NX
. Each acute ward has sixteen or seventeen beds. Each PICU has twelve beds. In addition there is a Place of Safety and Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service on the site.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

For more details on the In-Patient Specialist Doctor - Acute Adult Inpatients (Highgate West) role please see JD / Person Spec

• Full GMC registration
• S12 approval
• MRCPsych or equivalent qualification

• At least 3 years of post-registration experience of working in psychiatry
• Experience of leading ward rounds and other clinical reviews
• Experience of preparing MHRT reports and presenting at MHRTs

• Willingness to work occasionally at weekends
• Good clinical skills
• Good interpersonal skills

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.