General Psychiatry
Location: Based at Lewisham community and primary care team
Shift patterns
9-5 days with on calls at Ladywell unit from 17:00-21:00, 21:00-09:00 or 09:00-21:00 over the weekend.
Duties
Community team - predominantly looking after people with chronic mental health issues (psychotic disorders, BPAD, sever depression, EUPD) Primary care team - seeing patients predominantly referred from their GP with first onset mental health issues or acute deteriorations of long standing conditions On call - cover the Ladywell unit in Lewisham and clerk new admissions and CAMHS referrals.
Lead details
Rota coordinator email
Leave request
Request leave directly from clinical supervisor
Advice
Make sure you have a good grounding in common psychiatric presentations and history taking as you start seeing patients independently quite quickly.
Learning opportunities
This is a really good rotation for GPs as you see new presentations of common psychiatric presentations and have to manage independently (but with support if needed). It gives you a good idea of what psychiatric secondary care services can offer and when it would be appropriate to refer.