Fixed Term Specialty Doctor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in London is seeking a Specialty Doctor for its CAMHS services. The role involves providing medical advice, conducting psychiatric assessments, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have a medical degree and experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This position offers a supportive environment with a comprehensive benefits package promoting work-life balance.

Benefits

Generous pay and pensions

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

NHS discounts

Counselling services

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified medical doctor with psychiatric training.
• Experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical and psychiatric advice under supervision.
• Conduct psychiatric assessments and update patient records.
• Communicate treatment plans to primary care.

Skills

Psychiatric assessment

Mental Health Act knowledge

Psychotherapeutic techniques

Documentation and communication

Education

Medical degree

Job description

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Overview

Applications are invited for a Specialty Doctor post based in Lewisham CAMHS service at the Adolescent treatment team (ATT) and at Youth justice service CAMHS service.

This post is for Monday–Friday from 9am–5pm with no out-of-hours responsibilities. The post holder contributes on a regular basis to the daytime (09:00–17:00) resident doctor duty rota for Lewisham CAMHS crisis service along with CT and SR grade residents and with support from the duty consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist. The post will be initially for a period of 6 months with possibility of extension. Start date is ideally: 6th August 2025, although some flexibility is possible. This post is akin to a very popular specialist resident training post in community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, but this is a service post rather than a higher training post. Unusually, this specialty doctor post has arisen due to the appointed ST4 not being able to take up the post at short notice.

Responsibilities

1. To provide medical and psychiatric advice to ATT and ARTS under supervision of Consultant.
2. To initiate a psychiatric assessment, including Mental State examination on first contact with patient, and to regularly update the Mental State Examination.
3. Accept medical responsibility for patients in the service under supervision of Consultant.
4. To maintain adequate written documentation of all medical and psychiatric examination of the patients and to record contacts with relatives and carers. All patients notes are recorded on the electronic patient record. All cases under your care to have up to date CAMHS community care plan, CAMHS risk assessments in the correct tab of the patient record, a regularly update CGAS score, an up-to-date medication record and a provisional ICD-11 multiaxial diagnosis.
5. To contribute to development of diagnostic and treatment plans with a comprehensive case workup. Presenting your assessment to the MDT.
6. To maintain timely communication with primary care after seeing a young person—the summary to include provisional ICD-11 diagnosis, prescribed psychotropic medication, risk assessment and an outline of the care plan for the young person.
7. To contribute to the MDT of both ATT and ARTs services.
8. To maintain a professional and ethical stance towards the patients, their relatives, other team members and other agencies.
9. To acquire knowledge of and competence in the Mental Health Act 1983, and other relevant medicolegal frameworks in regard to Children and Young people.
10. To acquire competence in psychotherapeutic techniques for Children and Young People as per post holder’s interests.
11. To participate in clinical supervision with the Consultant on a regular basis, with regular feedback.

Benefits and Working Environment

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It is important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, opportunities to progress your career with programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation, keyworker housing is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from various retailers through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Application and Closing

We look forward to receiving your application. This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025.