Our medical staffing team are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment that supports your needs and aspirations. By working with us we aim to provide you with a platform that enables you to deliver effective and efficient services, whilst supporting you to achieve professional and personal goals.
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CNWL Consultant Careers
To find out about the range of services we provide, the opportunities for teaching, leadership and research, discuss potential upcoming opportunities plus designing job plans that meet your needs as well as the organisations, please contact:
- Dr Simon Edwards, Medical Director at simon.edwards2@nhs.net
- Dr Gareth Jarvis, Medical Director at gareth.jarvis@nhs.net
- Dr Paul Hopper, Medical Director at phopper@nhs.net
As a Trust we provide postgraduate medical training in a wide range of specialities.
These include Mental Health, Palliative Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Genitourinary/HIV Medicine, Community Paediatrics, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Dentistry.
CNWL is known for its commitment to developing staff and the investment in learning and nurturing skills. We want a workforce that is modern, highly skilled and very capable, that can continue to deliver high quality care across an integrated healthcare system. The Medical Education Team support trainees and trainers to develop their skills in line with CNWL’s vision and values.
To find out more on the training programmes we support and deliver, please visit the following:
Mentorship has been identified as a beneficial practice for doctors and may be particularly valuable for newly appointed consultants.
Our new CNWL mentorship programme offers:
- Support and encouragement for personal development
- One-to-one meaningful discussions
- Professional focus conversations with an awareness of ‘work and home balance’
- Peer supervision, guidance and networking opportunities
The programme encourages mentors who are often in a senior position to pass on knowledge and experience, provide or recommend opportunities to the mentee, thus helping the mentee to develop skills and competencies to progress in their career.
The mentoring relationship lasts for varying lengths of time, for newly appointed consultants it is typically up to two years, with meetings at least monthly.
To find out more about the programme as a mentor or mentee, contact Ina Kvasa, Revalidation and Appraisal Manager, at ina.kvasa1@nhs.net
If you are a consultant in your first five years of practice and work in the Trust, you can join the CNWL New Consultant Forum.
You will meet and connect with new consultants to learn about:
- Starting well in your role as a new consultant
- Pensions
- Job plans
- Research and special interest work
- Tips including complaints and coroner inquests
- And many more!
To learn more, please get in touch with ina.kvasa1@nhs.net
The CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) provides an opportunity for doctors who have not undergone higher specialist training to be on the Specialist Register and therefore apply for substantive Consultant posts.
As of November 2023, CESR is now known as the Portfolio Route and is an alternative to specialist training that candidates can achieve by providing evidence of how they meet Higher Level Objectives (HLOs). Details are provided on the General Medical Council (GMC) website as the Specialty Specific Guidance, including eligibility for enrolment.
CNWL provides a programme to support doctors to achieve specialist registration in various Psychiatric sub-specialities through the portfolio route. Once enrolled in the programme, candidates will be expected to work with their Consultant supervisor and an appropriate peer group towards building an eportfolio of evidence that can be submitted to the GMC.
The CESR lead will provide oversight and support for the application, including developing a job plan and specialist interest sessions in conjunction with the Consultant supervisor and Clinical Director of the service.
The process is governed by the GMC, to whom candidates must submit an eportfolio within 2 years of registering. The portfolio will be assessed by a group of assessors from the relevant Royal College to determine if the HLOs are adequately met by the submitted evidence. If so, the candidate will be added to the Specialist Register and will be eligible to take up a Consultant post in the relevant specialty.
Interested candidates should approach the CESR lead, Dr Shubhinder Shergill at Shubhinder.shergill1@nhs.net.
The CNWL Career Coaching service is open to everyone (clinical and non-clinical) regardless of banding. It's a confidential space to discuss your career aspirations, whether on a one-to-one basis or in a group setting with the option of meeting in person or virtually.
When meeting with a career coach they can discuss and assist with securing workplace reasonable adjustments (if required), negotiate possible job tasters/shadowing sessions to increase awareness of available roles and scope out resources, website links to support staff with career decisions.
If you want to find out more, search 'career coaching' on Trustnet.
Expand on each accordion below to learn more about our medical leaders across the Trust and what they do within their roles.
As an old age psychiatrist, I’ve always been interested in the interplay between physical and mental health. For much of my consultant career I’ve taken on leadership responsibilities as a way to build joined-up work across NHS divides. The CNWL division I am responsible for, called Goodall, contains a wide range of physical and mental health services.
If you’re a doctor working in a community or mental health specialty and you’re looking for innovative opportunities, we probably have something of interest to you. Just get in touch and lets see what’s possible.
I am a consultant HIV and sexual health physician at the Mortimer Market Centre, London, having also completed by specialist training there too. I manage people living with HIV as outpatients and inpatients, and recently took over as medical lead for the HIV inpatient liaison team and sexual dysfunction service. I really enjoy service development and improvement, getting more involved and interested as a result of the mentorship provided by the CWNL Quality Improvement Academy.
I recently led on a quality improvement project on screening for domestic abuse in people living with HIV, which helped me solidify my learning, and also presented it at the inaugral CNWL Safety Conference. I also enjoy undergraduate and postgraduate education, with ample opportunity to get involved, and was awarded consultant trainee of the year by the CNWL Medical Education.
When I started as a consultant, I helped setting up the New Consultants Forum with monthly meetings with talks from colleagues across CNWL to support our professional and personal development, but also provide general support to each other. I have always been very passionate about international health having completed clinical, service and educational work in South Africa, Malawi, Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey and Sudan, which I have been encouraged and supported in continuing to do. Going from a trainee to a consultant at CNWL trainee has been a wonderful journey, with inspiring mentors who really shaped my professional development and career, and as consultant colleagues still continue to do so.
I work as a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. I am an overseas doctor and moved to the UK Foundation training straight after my graduation. I have completed my higher training in CNWL and have worked for the Trust for over 10 years.
Two years ago, I was appointed as International Medical Graduates (IMG) Lead in CNWL. My goal has been to make IMG doctors feel welcome and to make their transition to work in NHS as smooth as possible. I have implemented several interventions to prepare them for their job and support them with their training and development.
I am a Consultant Physician with a wealth of experience of improving health service through innovation. I am passionate about developing doctors to be inclusive clinical leaders, empowering them to shape and transform services collaboratively with patients, ensuring the delivery of delivery of high quality and safe care. Serving as an honorary Associate Professor with UCL, I highly value the enriching impact of research collaboration on individuals, team culture, and the services we provide. I frequently give lectures on quality improvement and leadership
In my role overseeing the CNWL Diggory division, I manage a diverse range of physical and mental health services mainly in London, Surrey and Milton Keynes. We provide care in community, inpatient settings and prisons to name a few.
Recognising the ambition inherent in medical professionals, I actively promote opportunities within CNWL and beyond, fostering the development of fulfilling careers. I am dedicated to helping doctors explore senior medical roles, and I welcome inquiries from those eager to learn more about such opportunities. If you're a doctor seeking to elevate your career, feel free to reach out.
I did my undergraduate and post graduate training in India and worked in a teaching hospital there (Shimla and Chandigarh) for about 8 years as Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Moved to UK in 2004 and have worked as consultant psychiatrist at Milton Keynes since then. First two years were as consultant in Dual Diagnosis and later in general adult psychiatry. Mostly I have worked in community and my current clinical responsibility is with Assertive outreach Team. I have been in the role of Clinical Director since April 2023.
I have 22 publications in scientific journals, including a book chapter in Text Book of Community Psychiatry in India. I also have published two collections of my poems and 8 books on mental health in Punjabi language. Other hobbies include painting, photography and travelling
Dr Gareth Jarvis is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director of CNWL's Jameson Division, leading the Adult Mental Health and Learning Disability Services of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Harrow and Brent.
Gareth went to Edinburgh Medical School and has worked across South East Scotland, South West England, and North Central London. He has an MSc in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals, an MSc in Psychiatric Research and has completed the NHS Leadership Academy’s Nye Bevan Programme in Executive Healthcare Leadership. He is a passionate advocate of the Open Dialogue approach to mental healthcare, being more inclusive of family and social networks, he helped set up the Haringey trial site of the ODDESSI research programme at UCL and is often invited to speak at conferences on the subject.
I am CNWL Director of Research and Development responsible for supporting research across the Trust. I am also a Professor in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health involved in leading a range of public health studies in the UK and internationally.
At CNWL we have a range of initiatives to support research including a starter grant scheme which provides funding for pilot and development studies. We also run a training grant scheme for staff interested in undertaking educational courses aimed at developing their research knowledge and skills.
I have a varied clinical, academic and management portfolio, so every day is different.
As a developmental paediatrician, I provide specialist assessments and paediatric care for babies, children and young people with developmental delay, neurodevelopmental conditions and neurodisability, and I work closely with multidisciplinary cross-sector teams from Health, Education and Social Care, who support children and young people with SEND. I also provide medical input for safeguarding, fostering and adoption.
Our team of paediatric doctors work closely with children’s physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, dietitians and other allied health professionals, community children’s nurses and health visitors, other specialist nurses, school nurses, public health team, social workers, local authority, commissioners, SENCOs, children’s centres, community groups (and many others), to collectively improve the health and well-being of children and young people, from birth to young adulthood. Over the last 20+ years, I have also taught medical students, junior doctors and other healthcare professionals, done research in the UK and abroad, led on quality improvement and innovation projects, and engaged in patient participation and people powered movements.
I currently serve in a senior clinical leadership role within the Trust. I enjoy both the frontline aspects of being a clinician and getting to meet patients, as well as being in the background to advocate and design improvements in healthcare systems, and I love that the scope of my work involves both the art and science of health provision for the present and future generations.
Being a Community Paediatrician is nonetheless extremely hard work, but it is such a rewarding career, as one gets to be part of a global mission to create health equity, improve population health, and enable and empower all children and their families to achieve positive and meaningful outcomes for life. Do contact me if you'd like to find out more about being part of the paediatric team at CNWL!
I was born in Rome where I studied and lived until I moved in UK in 2005 to pursue a career in Psychiatry. I have a background in Psychotherapy too as I have trained and practice Psychotherapy in Rome within a psychoanalytical/psychodynamic approach. I have also completed the training in MBT (Mentalised Based Therapy) with the Anna Freud Centre in London.
I am currently working as Consultant Psychiatrist on Frays Ward, Riverside Centre in Hillingdon and I have also Medical Managerial Responsibilities in my role as Clinical Director for Hillingdon Mental Health Services and as Associate Medical Director for the Goodall Division.
I have been one of the first Guardian of the Safe Working and I worked also as College Tutor for Post – Graduate Training when I worked in the Northeast UK. I am actively involved with the Royal College of Psychiatrists where I have several roles such as College Assessor for the AACs Panels, Regional Adviser as well as External Adviser for ARCP Panels. I also work for the South of England Approval Panel for AC/RC and Section 12 Approvals.
I have been a Consultant Psychiatrist for almost 20 years, having spent 14 of them working in the independent sector. My background is in learning disability and forensic psychiatry, but I have always badged myself as a neurodevelopmental psychiatrist. I joined CNWL in October 2023 and in addition to my CESR lead role, I work for the Harrow perinatal mental health services based in Northwick Park hospital and do one session per week for the Trust ADHD service.
I have had an interest in medical education and medical professional development since 2007 when I led on implementing Modernising Medical Careers in Herts Partnership FT. Since then I have had roles as: an educational and clinical supervisor for medical students and trainees; AMD for appraisal & revalidation and Postgraduate Medical Lead. In this latter role, I developed and supported a CESR programme for SAS doctors, as well as supporting the introduction of International Medical Graduates.
Most recently, I completed an MBA at Henley Business school in February 2023.
I have an interest in medicolegal work and trauma and have been a Medical member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal since Feb 2013.
I live in Pinner and have been based in North London for most of my life. I am married with a 21 year old daughter and 17 year old son. I am a big sports and sci fi fan – cricket, tennis and star trek are 3 of my biggest passions outside of home and working life!
I have worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Hillingdon’s addictions treatment service for over 15 years. This is a busy NHS led specialist addictions service in a large west London borough. I am Clinical Director of CNWL’s Addictions Directorate, providing clinical leadership to five drug & alcohol treatment services in London and Milton Keynes, as well as a variety of specialist services including the Club Drug Clinic, gambling / gaming , smoking cessation and mental health liaison / ‘inreach’ services.
I am enthusiastic about teaching and have significant involvement with undergraduate education in Psychiatry. I am the Course Leader for the Year 5 Psychiatry course at Imperial College School of Medicine, as well as Director of Clinical Studies for CNWL and as such am responsible for student placements in Psychiatry in our organisation.
I am the Clinical Director for the last three years, having been in the Trust as an SpR then Consultant in Westminster since 2007, initially at the Marlborough Family Service, now Westminster CAMHS.
We are a huge service line within CNWL, five community CAMHS, three in-patient units, the Adolescent Community Treatment Service (home treatment), four Urgent Care Teams and Paeds Liaison at four acute hospitals. New colleagues would join over 30 fellow CAMHS Consultants and a thriving sociable Consultant group working in clear pathways and clinical models. There is great opportunity to develop special interests e.g. with Imperial College, and also bespoke leadership skills.
My own areas of interest are complex trauma and attachment, family law, and young offenders including those families at risk of extremism. I organise Royal College of Psychiatrist workshops and have presented at national conferences on these topics.
Outside of work, much of my time is taken up with a young family, living in north London. I enjoy running and cycling and the rollercoaster of being an Arsenal season-ticket holder.
I grew up in London and studied Medicine in Manchester. I completed my training in Psychiatry alongside a diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. My career has encompassed various specialties in general adult psychiatry, and I currently channel my skills towards the Early Intervention Service. Notably, I have had various managerial roles in both Clinical and Education services. I have been a Clinical Director in Manchester and London; and am currently Training Programme Director for North West London and Director of Medical Education at CNWL. These roles have allowed me to make substantial contributions to the advancement of medical education and the delivery of quality healthcare.
As part of our work in Medical Education we have developed a new website to showcase the excellent training that NW London can offer, demonstrate the extensive support for our current trainees and encourage people to come and train in NW London. Visit www.nwlpsychiatrytraining.com
We have collected a series of short videos you can watch to learn more about working across different teams and services.
Working in Westminster
Hear from colleagues working across Westminster, known as the heart of London. They describe their day-to-day responsibilities, development and training opportunities and what they love most about their role!
Working in Eating Disorders
Ahad, a Specialist Doctor shares how the psychiatry, medicine and therapy appealed to her to pursue a role of assessing patients with symptoms of eating disorders.
Working in Health and Justice
Meet Dr Satinder Sahota, he is the Clinical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist for CNWL Health and Justice Services. He says "the most rewarding part of the job is hearing the stories from patients". There are lots of opportunities around leadership, developing academic or research interests. Find out more by visiting our Health and Justice service pages.