We are looking for a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist to work at The Royal Marsden Hospital. We have 6 PAs to recruit at our Sutton site (another Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist works 6 PAs 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 Duty Clinician function, and (iii) to provide p...