Locum Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry – 249443 PM

Job Description

Locum Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry

Reference – 249443

NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and be eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Portfolio Pathway route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded. Non UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.

Applications are welcome for a fixed term, part time (36 hours per week) post based in St Johns Hospital.

This is a part time (9 Programmed Activities) 12 month locum position working alongside a consultant colleague, a specialist and a trainee doctor, providing a specialist inpatient perinatal psychiatry service to the patients of NHS Lothian, NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Tayside and NHS Highlands. There are no associated on call duties. Additional activities can be explored to make the post full time if that is preferable.

The post will be based at St. Johns’ Hospital, Livingston. The post holder will be the clinical lead for the regional mother and baby unit and its thriving multidisciplinary team. Together with colleagues, the postholder will provide Maternity Liaison Psychiatry input to women delivering at St. Johns Hospital.

The post holder will be responsible clinical lead for the Mother and Baby Unit, while Dr Vikki Argent, Consultant Psychiatrist, is the psychiatric lead for Maternity Liaison and the Community Perinatal Mental Health Team.

Dr Wojtek Wojcik, Clinical Director for REAS Specialist Services

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Closing Date: 06/06/2026