Overview
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a substantive consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist post which has arisen due to a staff vacancy. It offers a unique opportunity to join an established and dynamic team of 5 Consultant Psychiatrists in Croydon CAMHS, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be based within the Croydon CAMHS Treatment Team, which focuses on the provision of specific evidence based interventions including CBT, family therapy, IPT and medical interventions such as antidepressants and stimulant medications. The post will also include providing sessions to ARC (ADHD Medication Review Clinic).
There are five consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists in Croydon CAMHS (a total of 3.8 WTE). We have specialist interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Crisis Care.
The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).
This post includes 7.5 PAs of direct clinical activity with the Croydon CAMHS Treatment Team with 2.5 PAs of structured 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.
Interventions are offered with a multi-disciplinary team approach drawing on a number of specialist therapeutic approaches including psychiatry, psychology, nursing, family therapy and varying psychotherapy models – such as CBT, psychotherapy, creative therapies and family therapy. The team has developed clear pathways of working together with other teams in the borough as well as national and specialist services in the directorate be it in-patient or outpatient.
Assessments are undertaken weekly within the team, with an assessment clinic running on a set day to enable broad MDT discussions of assessments. CAMHS practitioners generally hold caseloads of 30 children/young people. Consultant Psychiatrists are not generally first assessors or care coordinators, except for medication reviews in young people receiving consultant-only care. The expectation in the Trust is of a minimum of 3 direct clinical contacts per day averaged over the week.
Benefits offered by SLAM:
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. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at Slam. It’s important to us that you feel 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, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible 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 leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
* Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
* Accommodation, eligible staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
* NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
For further details, please see attached JD.
Full details of the Job Description can be found on the attachment, which also details the main responsibilities expected from the post holder.
Person Specification
ESSENTIAL
* Full GMC Registration with a License to Practice
* MRCPsych or Equivalent
* (Eligibility for) Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status. If not yet S12/AC approved this would not preclude appointment if otherwise suitable, but gaining such approval must be a priority
Training and Experience
* Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* Experience of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities
* Clinical skills
* 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, and other relevant legal frameworks, 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
Personal Skills
* Excellent demonstrable communication skills in English (both oral and written)
* Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and resolve conflict
Probity
* Eligible to work in the UK
Desirable
* Qualifications
* 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
Training and experience
* Trained in ADI and ADOS (A)
* Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
* Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners.
Special interest
* Special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions
* Clinical skills – 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.
Management/Audit
* Has led quality improvement projects/audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
* Evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services
Research
* Peer reviewed publication
* Book publication
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Nov 2025
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