• Job Description

  Req#: C9334-25-0417?language=en&page=1072&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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

  Benefits

  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.

  Otherbenefitsinclude:

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

  Details

  Date posted

  02 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Consultant

  Salary

  Depending on experience £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  334-CHI-7036251-JA-A

  Job locations

  Lewisham CAMHS, Kaleidoscope Centre

  32 Rushey Green

  London

  SE6 4JF

  
  

  Job description

  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!

  Job description

  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

  Essential

  • MRCPsych membership or equivalent

  Desirable

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
  • Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners

  Clinical Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • MRCPsych membership or equivalent

  Desirable

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
  • Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners

  Clinical Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Lewisham CAMHS, Kaleidoscope Centre

  32 Rushey Green

  London

  SE6 4JF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Lewisham CAMHS, Kaleidoscope Centre

  32 Rushey Green

  London

  SE6 4JF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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