Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist for a 12-month fixed-term position. This role involves working within the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS, focusing on assessments and interventions for young people with Autism and mental health difficulties. The successful candidate will contribute to service development and provide clinical leadership in a supportive multidisciplinary team environment.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Car lease options

Keyworker housing

NHS discounts

Counselling services

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience in inpatient psychiatry and liaison psychiatry, especially in Paediatrics.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Evidence for inclusion in the Specialist Register.

Responsibilities

• Assessment and management of children and young people.
• Supervision of junior medical staff.
• Participation in training of medical students and psychiatric trainees.

Skills

Leadership

Adolescent psychiatric assessment

Communication

Teamwork

Safeguarding

Education

MRCPsych membership or equivalent

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS

The closing date is 01 June 2025

This is a 12 month fixed-term post. The post holder will be based within the Neurodevelopmental (NDT) CAMHS, which focuses on the assessment and provision of specific evidence based interventions including in young people with an existing diagnosis of Autism and / or Intellectual Disability and additional mental health difficulties. The post will also include providing 2 sessions to the community Paediatrics to support social communication joint assessments.

This is a time of change and expansion in the medical team in Lewisham CAMHS. We have a number of well established and experienced Consultants and will be expecting to recruit to another (full time) substantive post. We will expect to have a total of 5.5 WTE. We have specialist interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, ADHD, Intellectual Disabilities, Forensics, Children in Care and Crisis/Complex Case management Care.

Main duties of the job

This post includes 4 PAs of direct clinical activity with the NDT, of which 1 day is allocated to Autism Assessments under a service level agreement with Community Paediatrics.

The post benefits from 2PAs of structured professional activities, during which the post holder will contribute to service development, research clinical governance and quality improvement, in addition to completing continuous professional development and pursuing other professional activities.

The NDT is a well-established service that also has another consultant psychiatrist (6 PAs) as well as consultant psychology (part-time) to support in the leadership of the team. The clinical service lead is an experienced and highly efficient clinician who manages the supervision of the multidisciplinary team members. We offer specialist interventions following assessments to these young people and includes individual work as well as group. The team have a history of innovative work, sometimes presenting her work at international conferences and publishing the treatment models. It is open to young people and children aged 0 to 18 years who are registered with Lewisham GP and have additional mental health difficulties (with an existing diagnosis of autism (ASD) and/or intellectual disabilities (ID)).

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of theirbenefitspackage and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellentbenefitsfor you and your family. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensivebenefitspackage on offer.

Some of ourbenefitsare highlighted here:

• 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.We support a range of flexible working 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.
• Our staff benefit fromkeyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts.With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.
• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:1) Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care. 2) Supervision of junior medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already3) Attending and chairing clinical meetings as timetabled.4) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies5) Strong clinical leadership6) Provision of advice to other CAMHS teams. 7) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings. 8) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric trainees and multidisciplinary staff.9) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust. Also to complete GMC Revalidation requirements within every 5 year cycle

10) Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

11) Maintain Section 12 and Approved Clinician approval. If the appointee is not Section 12 or AC approved, they will be expected to become so as soon as possible12) Cover for colleagues is prospective.

Please refer to the job description for further details.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MRCPsych membership or equivalent
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Experience in other relevant specialties such as in patient psychiatry, liaison psychiatry (especially Paediatrics)
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Evidence for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within six months of gaining CCT in C&A psychiatry or Equivalent training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CESR issued by PMETB).
• Section 12 approved
• Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment

Training and Experience

• Special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions
• Trained in ADI-R and ADOS or equivalent
• Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Experience of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities
• Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
• Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners

Clinical Skills

• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent adolescent psychiatric assessment skills
• Good ability to relate to children, adolescents and parents
• Good ability to work in a team setting
• Understanding of safeguarding
• Ability to assess capacity and consent
• Understanding of how complaints and serious incidents are managed
• Up-to-date knowledge and fitness to practice
• Expertise in the use and application of The Mental Health Act in children and young people
• Evidence of skills in consultation to non-mental health specialists e.g. GPs, social workers, paediatricians
• Evidence of range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• Expertise in CBT or other therapeutic intervention to postgraduate level
• Significant experience of developing and leading outpatient/community CAMHS psychiatric care

Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning

• Management/Audit: Participation in audit or QI in clinical posts
• Teaching: Experience of teaching a range of disciplines
• Research: Involvement in research projects
• Personal Skills: Excellent demonstrable communication skills in English (both oral and written)
• Personal Skills: Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and resolve conflict
• Personal Skills: Probity
• Personal Skills: Eligible to work in the UK
• Management/Audit: Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Teaching: Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Research: Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
• Research: Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications
• Personal Skills: Has led quality improvement projects/audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
• Personal Skills: Evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services
• Personal Skills: Peer reviewed publication
• Personal Skills: Book publication

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.

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