Consultant Psychiatrist in General Psychiatry (Kilburn CMHT

Position: Consultant Psychiatrist in General Psychiatry (Kilburn CMHT)
Job summaryCNWL is looking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Consultant to join the Kilburn Community Mental Health Team, based at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health,This fwould be an excellent opportunity for someone wanting to broaden their experience of community psychiatry and develop their clinical skills in a supportive and challenging environment. The team is well established with good support from senior clinical and managerial colleagues, and has opened since the current post-holder is relocating.

Main duties of the jobThis is a full-time replacement post working within the Kilburn Locality Community Mental Health Team. The post holder will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the Kilburn Locality Community Mental Health Team. The post holder will also provide mentoring and supervision as an experienced Consultant.

About us Brent Adult Mental Health Service provides a range of services for adults within community and hospital settings. Our community services have recently transformed to improve the quality of care received by people with mental health needs in their local community in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, towards provision of more integrated, personalised and place-based care.

Brent adult mental health services:o Acute in-patients (3 ward - 47 beds) and PICU (11 beds) - Park Royal Centre for Mental Healtho Community Mental Health Hubs - organised in three hubs serving the three GP networks in the borough. Harness and Kilburn hubs are based at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health, Park Royal;
Kingsbury and Willesden Hub is based at Fairfields House, Kingsbury.o Early Intervention Service is based at Fairlight Avenueo Home Treatment Team (HTT) is based at Park Royal.o Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team) is based at Park Royalo Park Royal Brent Integrated Psychology and Psychotherapy Services embedded within the community teamso Community Forensic Service is povided in collaboration with West London NHS Trust.o

Brent Talking Therapieso Brent Community Collaboration and health inequalities teamo Mental health social team which deliver AMHP, hospital discharge, placements and complex case managemento Rethink mental health team

Details

Date posted
30 July 2026

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade Consultant Salary
113,565 to 150,569 a year

plus London weighting of 2162 per annum pro rata

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number
333-J-BR-C-0019

Job locations

Park Royal Centre for Mental Health Central WayLondonNW
10 7NS
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

Principle Clinical Duties:
1. Assessment of new patients and clinical supervision of assessments conducted by other team members.
2. Full participation in the multidisciplinary team providing care in the community.
3. Senior medical responsibility for the care conducted by the Community Mental Health Team for complex patients.
4. Review and monitoring of the caseload to ensure appropriate care plan and packages are in place and discharges facilitated to maintain patient flow.
5. Contribution to the continuous development of the Community Mental Health Team, and to other parts of the Service as required.
6. Domiciliary visits to provide assessment and treatment services as a member of the CMHH
7. Domiciliary assessments in response to emergencies
8. Research, in terms of personal projects and clinical audits as part of clinical governance and quality improvement.
9. Involvement in joint planning of future service development.
10. Occasional psychiatric assessments of residents who may be in crisis in another borough.
11. Close liaison with the wards to facilitate admission and discharge planning.
12. Liaison with HTT, Psychiatric Liaison Services, AMHP services and Forensic Services in the borough.

Leadership Responsibilities:
1. Leadership role in the quality agenda: identifying areas for improvement and active engagement with QI.2. Meet regularly with the team and local service managers to ensure quality, finance and performance targets are met.
3. Support recruitment and ensure optimal retention of team members.
4. Line management and clinical of junior and higher trainees and specialty doctors in the team.
5. Teaching medical students.
6. Engage in service development opportunities, Borough SMT and Borough CQM.
7. Actively link and develop a relationship with the Primary Care Network(s) you are affiliated to, to respond to their developing needs and support the move towards more integrated care.

Teaching and training

To include:
1. There is one GP trainee and one part time specialty doctor in the Harness team.
2. An active role in the postgraduate teaching programme which consists of a local academic meeting on Wednesday lunchtime. This meeting includes a Journal Club and case presentations. This takes place at the inpatient site Park Royal Centre for Mental Health.
3. We also have an SAS Lead onsite Dr Theo Mavrogiannidis, the and Trust wide Lead for SAS lead Dr…