Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed-Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 334-CHI-7036251-JA-C
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham CAMHS, Kaleidoscope Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
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)).
Working for our organisation
Benefits
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. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are 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 from keyworker 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.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main 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 already
3) Attending and chairing clinical meetings as timetabled.
4) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies
5) Strong clinical leadership
6) 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 possible
12) Cover for colleagues is prospective.
Please refer to the job description for further details.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCPsych membership or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- 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)
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
- Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Amanda Waldman
- Job title
- Lead Clinician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please contact Maryland Ocansey (Service Manager) on 0203 228 1000 or via [email protected] or Dr Eirini Skouta (Associate Medical Director for the CAMHS CAG in the trust) on 07712390693 for any questions regarding this post.
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