Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist to work at The Royal Marsden Hospital. We have 6 PAs to recruit to at our Sutton site (another Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist works 6Pas at our Chelsea site).

The Adult Psychological Support Service (APSS), in which Liaison Psychiatry is based, provides a service for patients across the two sites of the hospital for inpatients, those receiving ambulatory care and outpatients. Other pathways within the service are: directive therapies (e.g. CBT/ Third Wave approaches, EMDR); exploratory therapies (e.g. integrative, existential, psychodynamic); family therapy (primarily working with adult patients with dependent children, and young adult patients); psychosexual therapy.

Main duties of the job

The Liaison Psychiatry pathway has three main functions: (i) to provide the general liaison psychiatry service to the inpatient wards of the hospital, (ii) to provide a Du...