Job summary
- Main area
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 8 sessions per week (32 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 294-MEDI-0331-ABM-A
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sutton CAMHS
- Town
- Wallington
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 pro rata p.a. plus London Zone allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Sutton
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Consultant Psychiatrist 8PAs p/w (4 days)
We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic consultant psychiatrist to join our CAMHS team in Sutton, a leafy suburb of South West London. The postholder will join 12 CAMHS Consultants within the Trust Service Line. This is a part time, 8PAs, substantive post. This post has become available due to the previous post-holder retiring.
The post-holder will be responsible to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Clinical Director of SW London St George’s Mental Health Trust.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Directorate of Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is a well-established provider of mental health services to the boroughs of Richmond, Sutton, Kingston, Merton and Wandsworth. The local Sutton CAMHS team is highly specialist comprising of family therapy, psychology, risk management nurses and DBT specialist. The team has access to trust wide services such as the DBT group program, eating disorder service, emergency services covering the 3 acute hospitals served by the Trust and an Learning Disability Service together with a Deaf Service and a Neurodevelopmental Team.
Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available *terms and conditions apply*
Closing date: 14 July 2024 (midnight)
Assessment date: Monday 22nd July 2024
Interview / AAC panel date (via MS Teams): Tuesday 23rd July 2024
Job Ref: 294-MEDI-0331-ABM-A
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, mature service to provide both medical and psychological treatment for individuals and families with severe mental health needs. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to lead on service development in line with Trust principles and governed by national standards. Please change the whole sentence
The post is within a multidisciplinary team providing a community service and has close links with local authority, education and the wider borough structure. The post holder will be joining a skilled, motivated, and innovative multidisciplinary team committed to continual learning and development and will be offered excellent CPD opportunities.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history, and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available *terms and conditions apply*
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Medical leadership within the team.
- Availability within normal working hours, for urgent assessments including mental health act assessments.
- Assessments in Tier 3 – usually one a week but depends on active case load
- Treatment with medication, mental state monitoring
- ADHD Shared care case load 100
- Case load non shared care 140
- CPA reviews with care coordinators / reviews with team members as agreed with the team manager
- Assessments at the local District General Hospitals for psychiatric emergencies
- Occasional psychiatric assessments outside the team base e.g. home visits
- Occasional GP liaison meetings
- Occasional meetings with colleagues in paediatrics and community paediatrics
- Liaison with the London Borough of Sutton children’s social care and education departments
- Participation in research as relevant to the service
- Participation in clinical governance
- Teaching of medical students
- Involvement in service planning
- Contribution to strategic meetings with partner agencies and the CCGs
- He/she is expected to be registered for and participate in continuing professional development.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- • MBBS or equivalent basic medical degrees
- • Full GMC registration
- CCT or equivalent in CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- MRCPsych Paper A and B
Desirable criteria
- • Extensive experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
- • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- • Approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Day to day responsibility of acute medical and psychiatric care.
- • Experience of working with people with mental health problems in a psychiatric setting
- • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Birgit Berg
- Job title
- Associate Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783 894920
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