Charlotte is a psychiatrist and educationalist. She started her medical career in acute hospital medicine before changing to psychiatry. She trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and has worked there clinically since 1994. Her first consultant post was as the first Lead Clinician for the Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College Hospital. She led the setting up of the twenty-four hour psychiatry A&E service. During her fourteen years leading the department, roles included the Southwark Suicide Prevention lead, Clinical Governance Lead and Southwark representative on the Primary Care Trust and she was Joint Founder Mental Health Link Workers’ Scheme. She is a liaison psychiatrist, and her clinical interests include psycho-oncology and palliative care psychiatry, depression and physical illness, mental capacity and suicide prevention.

Charlotte became the first Director of Undergraduate Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and continues to lead the Department of Undergraduate Psychiatry on all aspects of undergraduate psychiatry education for medical students from GKT School of Medical Education.

In 2018 she was appointed to the new role of Director of Mental Health Education MBBS at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Part of the role was to design and implement a new psychiatry curriculum for GKT School of Medical Education, including the world-first psychiatry longitudinal placements. Charlotte is involved in numerous areas of the medical school including admissions, assessment, quality management, curriculum design and faculty development.

In 2019 Charlotte became the first Associate Dean of Undergraduate Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chaired the Undergraduate Education Forum and represented undergraduate psychiatry in national forums for the Royal College until 2025. She continues to advise on undergraduate psychiatry and curriculum design nationally and internationally.

Charlotte is particularly interested in educational innovations in collaboration with medical students and trainees and patient educators. In 2004, with two KCL medical students, she set up KCL Psych Soc, the first UK undergraduate psychiatry society. With KCL students she supported medical students across the UK to set up similar societies. She organised the first national Psych Soc conference in 2013 in collaboration with students. Both initiatives have now been taken on by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and are a core part of the Choose Psychiatry campaign. In 2013, with Maudsley resident doctors and medical students, she set up PEEP the Psychiatry Early Experience Programme for GKT School of Medical Education students, an initiative that enables students to get extra psychiatry experience and super curricular experiences throughout all years at medical school. The programme has been taken on nationally by other medical schools.

Charlotte is passionate about widening participation in higher education and has designed various initiatives including the first IoPPN Autumn Psychiatry School for 100 sixth-form students from all four nations in 2021, and the annual IoPPN GCSE Psychiatry Summer School for pupils from local schools since 2018.

Charlotte has an interest in student wellbeing and mental health. For six years she was the psychiatrist on the Student Space Governance Group and the psychiatrist for the national Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education Expert Group.

She is interested in humanities in medical education and is on the steering group for the KCL Centre for the Humanities and Health.

Charlotte is Professor of Psychiatry Education and Innovation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.

Key Publications 

Book:

Beyond Bedlam Co-author: An anthology of verse written out of mental distress (Anvil Poetry Press, October 1997). Poems from this anthology were published in The Independent newspaper, daily for the week commencing September 15th 1997. Poems were written by people with mental illness who were being treated by psychiatric services. 

Book chapters:  

Eating Disorders: Charlotte Wilson Jones: Revision Psychiatry: MedMedia: ISBN: 0-9523039-2-2 2001

Anxiety and Somatoform Disorders: Charlotte Wilson Jones: in Women and Psychiatric Treatment: Routledge 2006. ISBN 13:978-0-415-2194-3hbk. 2006 

Journals: 

Childhood predictors of adult medically unexplained hospitalisations. Results from a national birth cohort study. Hotopf M; Wilson-Jones C; Mayou R;  Wadsworth M;  Wessely S. British Journal of Psychiatry.  176:273-80, 2000 Mar.

Ethnic density and deliberate self-harm; a small area study in South East London. Neeleman J. Wilson-Jones C; Wessely S. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.  55(2):85-90, 2001 Feb.

Does anyone care about names? How attendees at substance misuse services like to be addressed by health professionals. Keaney F;  Strang J;  Martinez-Raga J;  Spektor D;  Manning V;  Kelleher M;  Wilson Jones C;  Wanagaratne S;  Sabater A. European Addiction Research.  10(2):75-9, 2004.

Dual diagnosis in a Primary Care Group (PCG) (100,000 population locality): A step-by-step epidemiological needs assessment and design of a training and service response model By: Strathdee, G; Manning, V; Best, D; Keaney, F; Bhui, K; Witton, J; Wall, S; McGillivray, L; Marsden, J; Johnson, F; Piek, C; Wilson-Jones, C. DRUGS-EDUCATION PREVENTION AND POLICY   Volume: 12  Supplement: 1   Pages: 119-123   Published: DEC 2005  

Working with NHS managers: Finding a common language: Francis Keaney, Sue Salas, Charlotte Wilson Jones: British Medical Journal Careers: 18th February 2006.

A case of self-harming with white spirit: Alistair Yap, Dr. Layla McCay and Dr. Charlotte Wilson Jones. Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry Volume 14 Issue 3 June 2010.

Capacity in vacuo: An audit of decision-making capacity assessments by a liaison psychiatry service Dr Benjamin W J Spencer, Dr Gareth Wilson, Dr Ewa Okon-Rocha Dr Gareth Owen Dr Charlotte Wilson-Jones: Published The Psychiatrist 2017.  

Publications:

A King’s College London undergraduate psychiatry event to challenge the stigma attached to psychological problems in health care professionals and students: Ahmed Hankir 1,2,3, Rashid Zaman 2,4, Mao Fong Lim 5 ,Isabel Lever 5 , Phillipa Brothwood 5 , Frederick R. Carrick 2,6,7, Jamie Hacker Hughes 8,9,10,11 & Charlotte Wilson Jones 12 Psychiatria Danubina, 2017; Vol. 29, Suppl. 3, pp 457-463 Conference paper

‘A Labour of Love’: A King’s College London Psychiatry Society event to challenge the stigma attached to mental health problems in post-natal women '. ATTACHED TO MENTAL HEALTH Ahmed Hankir 1,2,3, Phillipa Brothwood 4 , Bethany Crocker 4 , Mao Fong Lim 4 , Isabel Lever 4 , Frederick Carrick 2,5,6, Rashid Zaman 2,7 & Charlotte Wilson Jones 8 Psychiatria Danubina, 2017; Vol. 29, Suppl. 3, pp 469-475 Conference paper Medicinska naklada

Patel, MX, Sethi, FN, Wilson Jones C et al Joint BAP NAPICU evidence-based consensus guidelines for the clinical management of acute disturbance: de-escalation and rapid tranquillisation. Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, published online 8 June 2018. https://doi.org/10.20299/jpi.2018.008  

Patel, MX and Sethi FN, Wilson Jones C et al. Joint BAP NAPICU evidence-based consensus guidelines for the clinical management of acute disturbance: De-escalation and rapid tranquillisation. J Psychopharmacology 2018 32: 597-636. Three-year Longitudinal Follow-up of the Psychiatry Early Experience Programme (PEEP) Gaining and Sustaining Positive Attitudestowards psychiatry in Students at a UK Medical school Holt, C., Mirvis, R., Bao, J., Cross, S., Hussain, O., Hutchings, H., Marshall, E., Qureshi, H., Turner, F. & Wilson-Jones, C.1 Dec 2019, Academic psychiatry. 43, 6, p. 600-604

Perspectives of GCSE students attending a psychiatry summer school in South London: Wyke C, de Bernier GL, Sin Fai Lam C, Holt C, Butler S, Rajkumar AP, Wilson-Jones C. BJPsych Bulletin article BJPsychBull-20-0023.R1