Consultant C&A Psychiatrist - Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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).

About us

There are excellent opportunities for professional development including management, training, research, and audit experience.

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 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.

Other benefits include:

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

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for a full description of the role.

Key Responsibilities:1) Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care. 2) Manage clinical caseload, including ensuring timely outcoming, referrals, transitions and discharges. Provide caseload data/action key caseload management targets as required.

3) Provide strong clinical leadership and vision, in collaboration with Pathway Lead, for the integrated NDP in Lambeth CAMHS.

4) Supervision of non-consultant medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already

5) Attending and chairing clinical meetings and attendance at external meetings (e.g. DSR, SEN, tripartite as required) as timetabled.6) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies7) Provision of consultation and advice to other CAMHS teams. 8) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings. 9) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric residents and multidisciplinary staff.10) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust.

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

12) 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 possible13) Cover for colleagues is prospective.

14) Attend monthly Senior Management Team meetings as timetabled, and fulfil SMT member roles and responsibilities as a clinical leader.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Evidence of post-graduate professional qualifications in psychiatry

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

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
• Section 12 approved
• Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment

Training and Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

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

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

Desirable

• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• 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
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
• Book publication
• Peer reviewed publication

Personal Skills

Essential

• 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

Professionalism

Essential

• Fit to practice
• Occupational Health Clearance