Consultant Psychiatrist – CAMHS Emergency Care Service: Sponsorship Available

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Consultant Psychiatrist – CAMHS Emergency Care Service

Part Time – 8PAs

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to work within our Child & Adolescent Emergency Care Service.

This part time Consultant post will lead and manage the CECS Service to provide mental health services to children and young people of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond as well as providing a range of specialist services to a set of wider, regional and national catchment area.

The CAMHS Emergency Care Service (CECS) is located within South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

The CAMHS Emergency Care Service provide therapeutic assessment, risk assessment and crisis planning for under-18-year-olds presenting in mental health crisis to A&E Departments and Paediatric Wards at St Georges Hospital (Tooting), Kingston hospital and St Helier Hospital (Carshalton). The Service operates 7 days per week: referrals accepted 9am to 6pm, 9am to 8pm. Assessments take place mainly in A&E/ paediatric wards of local general hospitals whilst follow ups take place in CAMHS borough clinics or online. The team uses evidence-based skills to support meaningful and safe practice, such as Therapeutic Assessment, DBT Skills, Solution Focused Interventions.

Main functions of the team:

Providing psychosocial and risk assessments, safety planning for young people experiencing a mental health crisis and advising about further support.

Providing a follow up appointment to review crisis plan and plan ongoing support to ensure a seamless transition of the young person and their family into the community service if required.

Providing advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals working in other agencies and contribute to multi-agency care planning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary Medical degree and CCT Specialist Registration.
  • Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
  • Included on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT.
  • Approved Clinician status (or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment).
  • Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act (or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment).

Desirable

  • MRCPsych, or equivalent. Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for CAMHS
  • Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
  • Qualifications in change management and service development skills
  • Additional clinical qualifications or other higher degrees or further training relevant to the post.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved Higher Psychiatric training scheme.
  • Excellent knowledge in specialty, especially the assessment and management of mental health emergencies in children and adolescents.
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
  • Experience of undertaking duties under MHA and MCA.

Desirable

  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT:

Essential

  • Engage in continuing professional development, and join a Peer Group to gain approval for CPD done.
  • Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit, quality improvement, and working with colleagues in the liaison psychiatry team, the acute trust, and managers. Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer’s groups, and local charities.

Desirable

  • Experience of service planning and development
  • Experience of working with third sector partners

ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING

Essential

  • Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
  • Commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.

Desirable

  • Evidence of participation in research, and outcomes of studies
  • Plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
  • Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.

TEACHING:

Essential

  • Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry

Desirable

  • Teaching Qualification Evidence of feedback good from students

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: 27 September 2026

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