CAMHS Consultant: Maudsley Centre-Child & Adolescent Eating Disorders

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job description

CAMHS Consultant: Maudsley Centre-Child & Adolescent Eating Disorders

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

This is a Full-time replacement Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist post within the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED). This post is primarily based in the Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) with two sessions dedicated to the Eating Disorder (ED) outpatient team.

The Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP)

ITP is a specialist day hospital programme designed for young people who are already undergoing treatment for an eating disorder but require additional support. There are usually 8-12 young people attending the programme each day. The programme operates five days a week and offers flexible attendance, allowing participants to attend anywhere from half a day to five days per week depending on their individual needs. Following the UK school year, most young people attend for around 14 weeks, with breaks during half-term and a reduced program in the summer.

Main duties of the job

The job description is subject to college approval.

Have accountability for the delivery of high quality and safe care, with the Clinical Director, Lead Clinician N&S CAMHS and Joint Heads MCCAED.

Ensure that high standards and appropriate protocols are in place and rigorously followed for all aspects of the service.

Undertake detailed and complex assessments aligned to a pre-agreed approach but using a high degree of clinical expertise.

Lead the multi-disciplinary team alongside the ITP team manager and influence others to meet service commitments and needs of children, young people, and families.

Support and advise colleagues regarding clinical assessment and care of children and young people, whilst being clear about others' personal clinical professional accountability.

Please refer to the job description for further details.

About us

Working for the Trust

There are excellent opportunities for professional development including management, training, research, and audit experience.

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.
• Keyworker housing. 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.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Job responsibilities

Duties of this post holder also include:

• Consultant leadership and involvement with assessments, interventions, and care planning.
• All members of the Trust's medical staff are expected to practice within current GMC guidelines, in particular those contained within the booklets on Good Medical Practice and Maintaining Good Medical Practice.
• The Trust has established multi-disciplinary clinical governance mechanisms that the postholder will be expected to participate in.
• The service is actively involved in a range of quality improvement projects and audits.
• The postholder will assist in the implementation of research and evaluation where required and support clinical staff in developing new research and evaluation projects.
• The post-holder, as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in SLaM, can contribute to the academic programmes for both CTs and STs.
• The post-holder will have the opportunity to contribute to teaching, supervision, and delivering training sessions organised by the MCCAED training team.
• Promote good links with Tier 3 and local outreach CAMHS.
• The contract states that there is a requirement for all staff to have firm job plans.
• The appointee will be managerially accountable to the Joint Heads, the Lead Clinicians, the Deputy Director, and the Service Manager for National & Specialist CAMHS.

Full details of the Job Description can be found on the attachment, which also details the main responsibilities expected from the post holder.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification

• 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 the GMC).
• 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.
• Experience of assessing and managing child and adolescent eating disorders.
• Experience in child and adolescent eating disorder evidence-based treatments.
• Trained in ADOS and/or ADI.
• Training in investigation of complaints and SIs.
• Experience of providing consultation to GPs, non-CAMHS practitioners, and multi-agency work.
• Special interest in neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Trained in psychotherapy modalities for child and adolescent eating disorders.
• Experience of paediatric liaison and crisis care.

ACADEMIC SKILLS & 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.
• Excellent demonstrable communication skills in English (both oral and written).
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and resolve conflict.
• Probity.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications.
• Has led quality improvement projects/audits leading to service change or improved outcomes for patients.
• Evidence of involvement with business planning of clinical services.
• Book publication.

Qualifications

• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• 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, psychotherapy, etc.

Clinical skills

• Excellent leadership skills.
• Excellent child and adolescent psychiatric assessment skills.
• Good ability to relate to children, adolescents, and parents/carers.
• 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.
• Experience of CAMHS work with adolescents.
• 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, family therapy, or other therapeutic intervention to postgraduate level.
• Significant experience of developing and leading outpatient/community CAMHS psychiatric care.
• Significant experience of crisis care.
• Expertise in the use and application of The Children Act in children and young people.

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

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Depending on experience £105,504 - £139,882 per annum