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Consultant Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS Horizon & CRISISNHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref: 334-CHI-7002250-JA
Site: Lewisham CAMHS Town: London Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Closing: 17/03/2025 23:59
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 providing 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 substantive post is a new post, arisen following the increased demands of Lewisham CAMHS. It offers a unique opportunity to join an established and dynamic service in Lewisham CAMHS, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be based within the Horizon Generic team and the CRISIS team in Lewisham CAMHS. The Generic role focuses on the assessment of, and provision of specific evidence-based interventions for young people with complex mental health difficulties. The CRISIS role comprises 7-day follow-up (when urgent medical assessment and treatment is required) to those Lewisham-based patients presenting at any ED and brief intervention.
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. This role is a 10 PA WTE.
The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section) and the weekly local consultant on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
This 10 PA post is split into DCC and SPA sessions: 7 PAs with Horizon team and 3 PAs with the CRISIS treatment team.
The post benefits from 2.5 SPA time (in total, pro rata) - 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 main responsibilities of the post include:
- Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care.
- Supervision of junior medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor or will become so if not already.
- Attending and chairing clinical meetings as timetabled.
- Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams, and agencies.
- Strong clinical leadership.
- Provision of advice to other CAMHS teams.
Working for our 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. 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
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties of this post holder also include:
- Participation in peer and group supervision meetings.
- Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric trainees, and multidisciplinary staff.
- Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust. Also, to complete GMC Revalidation requirements within every 5-year cycle.
- Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice, and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- 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.
- Cover for colleagues is prospective.
Please see attached job description and person specification for details.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
- 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 the GMC)
- Section 12 approved
- Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment
Training and Experience
- Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Experience of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities
- Special interest in complex mental health presentations comorbid with neurodevelopmental conditions
- Consultant experienced in community CAMHS
- Training in treatment modalities
- Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners
ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING
- Management/Audit - Participation in audit or QI in clinical posts (A) (I)
- Teaching - Experience of teaching a range of disciplines (A)
- Research - Involvement in research projects
- Excellent demonstrable communication skills in English (both oral and written)
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and resolve conflict
- Probity
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
- Has led quality improvement projects/audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
- Evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services
- Book publication
Qualifications
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- 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, psychotherapy, etc.
Clinical skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent child and adolescent psychiatric assessment skills
- Good ability to relate to children, adolescents, and parents/carers
- 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
- Experience of CAMHS work with younger children
- 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
- Significant experience of crisis care
The Trust is committed to providing services that embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
- Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
- Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
- We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity
Please note:
- That all applications for this post will need to be made online
- That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
- That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
- That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
- That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
- That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
- That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
- That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
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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.
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