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About the role

This is a substantive consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist post which has been created by the retirement of longstanding member of the consultant psychiatry team, who has provided Consultant Psychiatry expertise in the Neurodevelopmental Pathway (NDP) in Lambeth CAMHS for many years. It offers a unique opportunity to join an established and dynamic team of 5 Consultant Psychiatrists in Lambeth CAMHS, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This post is advertised alongside a new second NDP/ADHD post, creating two neurodevelopmentally-focused consultant psychiatry posts within the service. This is an exciting development to increase neurodevelopmental pathway capacity, and represents the ideal opportunity to respond innovatively to the needs of our children and young people. This dual-handed approach will also provide a close working relationship with the other consultant psychiatry post-holder and the NDP principal psychologist lead, which we envisage will be a supportive experience and prove fertile ground for innovation.

This post holder will be the primary consultant psychiatrist for the Neurodevelopmental Pathway (NDP) in Lambeth CAMHS. They will work closely with the Band 8b NDP lead, an experienced psychologist. The NDP is an integrated neurodevelopmental assessment and treatment offer described below. Operationally, core NDP professionals, including this postholder, are majority based within the River Team (higher-complexity CAMHS) for children and young people up to the age of 18 years, but there are embedded NDP clinicians in other teams within the service. There are six consultant child and adolescent psychiatry posts in Lambeth CAMHS (a total of 5.5 WTE), providing local opportunities for significant peer support and consultation. We have specialist interests in early intervention, GP consultation, ADHD, at-risk populations and crisis care. The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).

Person specification

Essential

Primary Medical Qualification
Evidence of post-graduate professional qualifications in psychiatry
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
Section 12 approved
Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment
Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Experience in managing neurodevelopmental conditions (ASC, ADHD and ID)
Experience of assessing and managing complex mental health co-morbidities
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
Management / Audit: Participation in audit or QI in clinical posts
Teaching: Experience of teaching a range of disciplines
Research: Involvement in research projects
Good verbal and written communication skills
Good ability to engage marginalised children, young people and their families
Good ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
Demonstrable and clear ability to effectively lead a team and resolve conflict
Probity
Eligibility to work in the UK
Fit to practice
Occupational Health Clearance

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 inpatient psychiatry
Trained in ADI and ADOS
Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
Special Interest in neurodevelopmental conditions
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

Consultant C&A Psychiatrist - Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway

About the role

Person specification