South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
Southwark CAMHS – CAMHS Clinical Academic Group (CAG)
We are seeking a fixed term – Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, to join the Southwark Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service for a fixed term period (9 months) due to maternity leave for the permanent post holder.
The post holder will join an established Multidisciplinary Team and support in the leadership and delivery of effective community CAMHS services, in accordance with national guidance and guidelines, and in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and other relevant services in the statutory, private, and voluntary sectors.
This Consultant post offers an opportunity to join Southwark CAMHS and the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the most comprehensive mental health service for children and young people in the country.
Main duties of the job
This post includes direct clinical activity and supporting professional activities, during which the post holder will contribute to service development, 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 in the neurodevelopmental service
To carry out mental health & risk assessments on children & young people, including with regards to the use of the MHA, as appropriate, and to support the multi-disciplinary team in managing these situations effectively.
To assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children and families, in partnership with the MDT
To use pharmacological interventions, as appropriate, in partnership with children and their families and networks of care.
Supervision of medical and non-medical staff as required.
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(GMC).
- 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 of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities
Desirable
- Trained in ADI and/or ADOS
- Specialist training in psychopharmacology
- Training in investigation of complaints and Sis
- Experience and/or additional training in forensic mental health
- Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners and multi-agency work
- Special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions
- Experience of paediatric liaison and crisis care
Clinical Skills
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of CAMHS work with younger children as well as adolescents.
- 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
- Expertise in the use and application of The Children Act in children and young people
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
Closing Date: 4 October 2026
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