CAMHS Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist-Lewisham

We are delighted to advertise a 10 PA Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist post within the Lewisham CAMHS service. This role has arisen due to the current post holder (of 10 + years) having left the role for a management role.

This is an interim role for 3-6 months, whilst the substantive role is awaiting RCPsych approval and will then be advertised.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic consultant to join our existing consultant group and form part of the Neurodevelopment team (NDT) and Crisis. You will have a passion for working with young people in a deprived area and the challenges that this might bring.

The post involves the management of young people who have Autism and / or Intellectual Disabilities with additional mental health difficulties. You will help lead this dynamic team and provide your expertise in the assessment and management of young people and families that are referred to the team. You will also support the ADHD treatment team in conjunction with other medical and non-medical prescribers.

This post is also part time with the Crisis team that provides liaison and consultation to the Emergency Department and short stay wards at University Hospital Lewisham. This includes the assessment of young people presenting in crisis, teaching of both medical (including junior CT psychiatric doctors) and non-medical staff and also linking with the psychiatric adult liaison service.

Main duties of the job

This post is split into 6 PAs of with the NDT, of which 1PA is allocated to ADHD treatment team with other consultants in the borough and 4Pas with the Crisis Team. It is expected that 0.5 PAs or less will be with intake to support assessments (within the time already allocated). This is a new model, and at time of writing, has not been started.

The post benefits from 2.5PAs (in total, pro rata) of structured professional activities, during which the post holder will contribute to service development, research clinical governance and quality improvement, in addition to completing continuous professional development and pursuing other professional activities.

The NDT is a well-established service that also has another consultant psychiatrist (6 PAs) as well as consultant psychology (part-time) to support in the leadership of the team. The clinical service lead is an experienced and highly efficient clinician who manages the supervision of the multidisciplinary team members. We offer specialist interventions following assessments to these young people and includes individual work as well as group. The team have a history of innovative work, sometimes presenting her work at international conferences and publishing the treatment models. It is open to young people and children aged 0 to 18 years who are registered with Lewisham GP and have additional mental health difficulties (with an existing diagnosis of autism (ASD) and/or intellectual disabilities (ID)), As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. The post will involve some home working, with equipment provided as required.