Fixed Term Specialty Doctor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London seeks a Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The position includes regular psychiatric assessments, documentation, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate should be registered with the GMC and possess core training qualifications. This fixed-term role offers a competitive salary package and promotes a healthy work-life balance with various benefits.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Car lease benefits

Accommodation assistance

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the General Medical Council.
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry is preferred.
• Interest in psychiatry and a desire to explore this career option.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical and psychiatric advice to teams under supervision.
• Initiate psychiatric assessments and maintain documentation.
• Contribute to the development of diagnostic and treatment plans.

Skills

Ability to relate with non-medical staff effectively

Ability to gain confidence of patients

Knowledge of current issues in psychiatry

Ability to manage time and prioritise workload

Interest in psychiatry

Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry

Experience of working in the NHS

Education

Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Certificate of completion of Core Training (CT1-3)

Postgraduate qualification in medical or related spheres

Section 12 approval

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Fixed Term Specialty Doctor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The closing date is 26 August 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Broadly, expectations are that the post holder is able to take a detailed psychiatric history, carry out a mental state examination, and carry out a detailed general physical examination and order relevant investigations like ECG, Bloods etc. The Post holder will be required to maintain appropriate documentation in the patient's notes and liaise closely with the multidisciplinary teams in ATT and ARTs and with the CAMHS Consultant.

About us

Working for your organisation

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's 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,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is 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,there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation,our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket load
• Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

Key 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 holders interests.

11. To participate in clinical supervision with the Consultant on a regular basis, with regular feedback.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• Certificate of completion of Core Training (CT1-3)
• Postgraduate qualification in medical or related spheres
• Section 12 approval

Experience/Knowledge/Skills

• Ability to Relate with non-medical staff effectively
• Ability to gain confidence of patients
• Knowledge of current issues in psychiatry
• Ability to manage time and prioritise workload
• Interest in psychiatry and desire to explore this career option
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Evidence of an interest in, or a commitment to, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic populations
• Commitment to working with members of the ethnic minority populations
• Diversity of interest over non-medical areas

Research

• Research at undergraduate or postgraduate level

Personal Qualities

• Willing to take instruction and work flexibly
• Ability to get on with colleagues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience£61,542 - £99,216 per annum