Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Doctors Direct has a great opportunity for a Consultant with Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist experience, available at sites across South London.

This role allows you to work with a multi-disciplinary team providing holistic evidence-based care and working with people to manage their mental health and risks when at their most distressed. As the Consultant you have the opportunity to develop those working relationships and provide clinical leadership to enhance the clinical offer within the team and wider unit. The multi-disciplinary team you work with also provides the support to provide this care.

We are seeking those with experience of assessment and safety management of service users within the community, this includes excellent communication skills with a detailed knowledge of safeguarding procedures. You will also have knowledge of interventions, including psychological interventions to support our mothers, babies, and families.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care.
  • Supervision of junior medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already
  • Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric trainees and multidisciplinary staff.
  • This job will involve mainly clinical role of seeing the most complex cases and liaising with team members (MDT meeting, clinical case discussion).
  • There are a prescribing nurse and a junior doctor who work in the team as well.
  • Occasional cover to A&E Lewisham University Hospital (shared in a rota with other 4 consultants) may be needed (however, there is a crisis team and junior doctors as a first port of call).
  • Approved clinician/S12 approval is desirable for this occasional role.

Details about the Role:

  • Specialty: Community Mental Health Psychiatry
  • Locations: Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark (South London areas – you pick which location suits you)
  • Start Date: ASAP-ongoing, no end date yet
  • Days per week: Monday-Friday (our client will accept part time consultants 2-3 days per week)
  • Shift Pattern: 9:00-17:00, including on call occasionally.
  • Pay rate: £100-£120 per hour (depending on experience)
  • Payment method: PAYE we do NOT facilitate payment through LTD/umbrella companies

The minimum requirements for the role are:

  • Valid GMC
  • Right to work in the UK
  • Clinical attachment complete
  • Minimum 3 months paid UK experience
  • AC Status essential
  • S12 desirable

 

Our client will consider international doctors who do not have paid UK experience in areas’ whereby there is high demand, however you MUST meet the following requirements:

  • Minimum 10 years international psychiatry experience – essential (this must be detailed in CV)
  • Valid GMC – essential
  • Right to work in the UK – essential
  • Excellent in verbal and written English – essential
  • Clinical attachment complete – desirable

 

About the Trust:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of mental health and substance misuse services in the UK. Locally, it provides clinical services to a combined population of nearly two million people across eight London boroughs.

The Trust, rated as good by the CQC, has a five-year strategy of Aiming High, Changing lives which sees the Trust focusing on improving crisis, inpatient and community services across the London borough’s it serves. This is to ensure the patients receive the right care, at the right place, at the right time and in the most appropriate setting.

How to apply?

To find out more about this opportunity and others please call 03330 143 652 to speak to one of our dedicated recruitment consultants. If you’d like to apply, please email your CV to doctorsjobs@nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk.

Disclaimer:

As an equal opportunities organization, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.