Overview
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Croydon CAMHS. This is a substantive consultant post due to a staff vacancy, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The post is based in the Croydon CAMHS Treatment Team, focusing on evidence-based interventions including CBT, family therapy, IPT and medical interventions such as antidepressants and stimulant medications. The post also includes sessions to ARC (ADHD Medication Review Clinic).
There are five consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists in Croydon CAMHS (a total of 3.8 WTE). The team has specialist interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Crisis Care. The successful applicant will join the SLaM CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).
The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team and contribute to service development, clinical governance and quality improvement, while completing continuous professional development and pursuing other professional activities.
Main duties of the job
This post includes 7.5 PAs of direct clinical activity with the Croydon CAMHS Treatment Team and 2.5 PAs of structured professional activities. Responsibilities include clinical governance, quality improvement, and ongoing professional development.
Interventions are offered with a multidisciplinary team approach including psychiatry, psychology, nursing, family therapy and various psychotherapy models such as CBT, psychotherapy, creative therapies and family therapy. The team collaborates with other borough teams and national/specialist services in inpatient or outpatient settings.
Assessments are undertaken weekly within the team, with an assessment clinic on a set day to enable broad MDT discussions. CAMHS practitioners generally hold caseloads of around 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 Trust expects a minimum of 3 direct clinical contacts per day averaged over the week.
About us / Benefits
Benefits offered by SLAM:
We are committed to ensuring staff benefit from a comprehensive package and a healthy work-life balance. We offer a broad range of benefits and strive for a close-knit team culture. The following highlights reflect some of our offerings:
* Generous pay, pensions and leave: comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package dependent on role and length of service.
* Work life balance: flexible working options including part-time and job sharing.
* Career development: opportunities to progress, with leadership, mentoring, coaching, and other talent programmes.
* Car lease: competitive car lease deals.
* Accommodation: eligible staff housing on selected sites.
* NHS discounts: discounts up to 10% with various retail brands via Health Service Discounts.
For further details, please see attached JD.
Job responsibilities
Full details of the Job Description can be found in the attachment, which also details the main responsibilities expected from the post holder.
Person Specification
Essential
Full GMC Registration with a Licence to Practice; MRCPsych or equivalent; Eligibility for Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status (AC). If not yet S12/AC approved, appointment is not precluded; gaining such approval must be a priority. Training and Experience: Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Experience of assessing and managing complex comorbidities.
Clinical skills: Excellent leadership and adolescent psychiatric assessment skills; ability to relate to children, adolescents and parents; ability to work in a team; understanding of safeguarding; ability to assess capacity and consent; understanding of complaints and serious incidents; 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 communication skills in English; ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and resolve conflict; probity; eligible to work in the UK; has led quality improvement projects or audits leading to service change or improved outcomes; evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services; book publication.
Probity: Eligible to work in the UK.
Qualifications
* MRCPsych membership or equivalent
* 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
Eligibility
* 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 (CESR issued by PMETB)
* Section 12 approved
* Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment
Training and Experience
* Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
* Experience of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities
* Trained in ADI and ADOS
* Training in investigation of complaints and SIs
* Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners
* Special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions
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 in children and young people
* 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 & Lifelong Learning (Management/Audit Skills)
* Participation in audit or QI in clinical posts
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning (Teaching)
* Experience of teaching a range of disciplines
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning (Research)
* Involvement in research projects
* Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning (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
* Has led quality improvement projects/audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
* Evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services
* Book publication
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.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
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