HIV Liaison Consultant – Part time 7 sessions (26.25 hours per week) 

The HIV Liaison Service, is a small multi-disciplinary team, comprising consultant psychiatrist, mental health nursing and psychology and psychotherapy therapy staff. The service assists both mental health services and HIV services to support people who are living with HIV and a significant mental health problem. 

 We provide liaison, assessment and treatment and short to medium term psychological work for people whose mental health problems are related to living with HIV. 

 Our service covers the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.  Our approach is largely bio-psycho-social.  We embrace diversity and tackle stigma. 

 We provide advice, training and liaison work to statutory and non-statutory mental and physical health care services in the Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. 

 About the role: 

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed part-time consultant psychiatrist to work in a specialist HIV mental liaison health team, providing flexible clinical leadership and consultant responsibility and working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team. 

The postholder will need to demonstrate a holistic approach with regards to HIV and mental health, whilst keeping up-to-date with the latest HIV research and treatment, and have experience of working with diverse and sometimes marginalised client groups.  The post lends itself to those with a special interest spanning transcultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry as well as Addictions. 

The post holder will provide mental health liaison, assessment, treatment and short term support for clients with complex mental health issues relating to living with HIV.  This will include contributing to and providing advice during regular MDT meetings across LSL with other HIV healthcare professionals.  Our main referrers are HIV clinics, medical inpatient wards, mental health community teams and addiction services. 

About the location: 

The service currently has an office team base at Lambeth Hospital, Landor Road, SW9 9NT.  Pre-COVID clients were mainly seen in Outpatient settings both at Maudsley and Lambeth Hospitals, as well as in physical healthcare and inpatient settings as necessary.  Where and when appropriate clients can also be seen in their own home. 

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).  We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.  

Benefits: 

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer 

Some of our benefits are highlighted here: 

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service. 
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing. 
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes 
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars 
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites 
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. 

Other benefits include: 

• Counselling services 
• Wellbeing events 
• Long service awards 
• Cycle to work scheme 
• Season ticket loan 
• Childcare vouchers 
• Staff restaurants  

We look forward to receiving your application. 

For further details / informal visits contact: Roy Brazington - Clinical Services Manager for Neuropsychiatry Out-Patients & Persistent Physical Symptoms Research and Treatment service - Email address: Roy.brazington@slam.nhs.uk - Telephone number: 07972 639808