Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Lewisham CAMHS

The closing date is 09 November 2025

The post holder will be based within the Horizon Generic team and the CRISIS team in Lewisham CAMHS. The Generic role focuses on the assessment of, and provision of specific evidence-based interventions for young people with complex mental health difficulties. The CRISIS role comprises 7-day-follow up (when urgent medical assessment and treatment is required) to those Lewisham-based patients presenting at any ED and brief intervention.

This is a time of change and expansion in the medical team in Lewisham CAMHS. We have a number of well-established and experienced Consultants. This role is a 10 PA WTE.

Main duties of the job

This 10 PA post is split into DCC and SPA sessions: 7 PAs with Horizon team and 3 PAs with the CRISIS treatment team.

The post benefits from 2.5 SPA time (in total, pro rata) - 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. Please see notional timetable below for how this could be split.

The Horizon team is a well-established service that also has another consultant psychiatrist (10 PAs split between Horizon generic team and ADHD team) as well as consultant psychology (part-time), psychotherapists (part-time) and family therapists (part-time) to support in the leadership of the team. The clinical service lead (Full time) is an experienced and highly efficient manager who manages the multidisciplinary team members. We offer specialist interventions following assessments to young people and includes individual work as well as group work. The team have a history of innovative ways of working and cater to young people and children aged 0 to 18 years who are registered with Lewisham GP.

About us

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. It's important to us that you are 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. We support a range of flexible working 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 mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.
• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

1. Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care.
2. Supervision of junior medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor or will become so if not already.
3. Attending and chairing clinical meetings as timetabled.
4. Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies
5. Strong clinical leadership.
6. Provision of advice to other CAMHS teams.
7. Participation in peer and group supervision meetings.
8. Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric trainees and multidisciplinary staff.
9. Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust. Also, to complete GMC Revalidation requirements within every 5 year cycle.
10. Maintain GMC registration, maintain a Licence to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
11. Maintain Section 12 and Approved Clinician approval. If the appointee is not Section 12 or AC approved, they will be expected to become so as soon as possible.
12. Cover for colleagues is prospective.

Please refer to the job description for further details.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Person Specification 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, liaison psychiatry (especially Paediatrics)
• 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 PMETB).
• Section 12 approved
• Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within three months of appointment

Training and Experience

• Experience of assessing and managing complex co-morbidities, including Crisis Care
• Experience in Outpatient/Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with higher level diagnosis and management expertise
• Special interest in complex mental health presentations comorbid with neurodevelopmental conditions
• Training in treatment modalities
• Experience of providing consultation to non-CAMHS practitioners
• Consultant experienced in community CAMHS

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 and Lifelong Learning

• 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
• 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

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

Depending on experience £109,725 - £145,478 per annum