Consultant C&A Psychiatrist – Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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).

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

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).

Closing Date: 16 August 2026

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