CAMHS Consultant - Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway (ADHD)

Job overview

This is a substantive consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist post which has been created by the conversion of a fixed term post into a permanent position, to provide clinical leadership and Consultant Psychiatry expertise in the Neurodevelopmental Pathway (NDP) in Lambeth CAMHS, specifically focused on the ADHD pathway within the service. It offers a unique opportunity to join an established and dynamic team of 5 Consultant Psychiatrists in Lambeth CAMHS, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a newly envisaged post; advertised alongside our longstanding NDP consultant psychiatry position, creating two neurodevelopmentally-focused consultant psychiatry posts within the service. This is an exciting development to increase neurodevelopmental expertise and capacity, and represents the ideal opportunity to respond innovatively to the needs of our children and young people. This dual-handed approach will also provide a close working relationship with the other consultant psychiatry post-holder, the NDP principal psychologist lead and the ADHD nurse specialist, which we envisage will be a supportive experience and prove fertile ground for innovation.

Main duties of the job

This post holder will provide consultant psychiatry leadership and clinical input to the ADHD pathway in Lambeth CAMHS, including the ADHD medication clinic (LARC). In addition, clinical time will also be spent providing additional psychiatric capacity to our NDP. The post-holder will work closely with the Band 8A prescribing nurse specialist in ADHD, and with the Band 8B NDP lead, an experienced psychologist. The NDP is an integrated assessment and treatment offer described below. Operationally this postholder will be based between the ADHD medication clinic and the River Team (higher-complexity CAMHS) for children and young people up to the age of 18 years. There are embedded NDP clinicians in other teams within the service.

There are six consultant child and adolescent psychiatry posts in Lambeth CAMHS (a total of 5.5 WTE), providing local opportunities for significant peer support and consultation.  We have specialist interests in early intervention, GP consultation, ADHD, at-risk populations and crisis care.

The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).

Detailed job description and main 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) Manage clinical caseload, including ensuring timely outcoming, referrals, transitions and discharges. Provide caseload data/action key caseload management targets as required. 3) Provide strong clinical leadership and vision, in collaboration with 8a ADHD Pathway Lead, for the ADHD pathway and LARC medication clinic.

4) Supervision of non-consultant medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already. This is not a training post, but we are always looking for opportunities to take on new trainees.

5) Attending and chairing clinical meetings and attendance at external meetings (e.g. LARC clinic meeting, local service development meetings) as timetabled. 6) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies 7) Provision of consultation and advice to other CAMHS teams. 8) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings. 9) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric residents and multidisciplinary staff. 10) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust.

11) Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

12) 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 13) Cover for colleagues is prospective.

14) Attend monthly Senior Management Team meetings as timetabled, and fulfil SMT membership roles and responsibilities as a clinical leader

The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).

Please refer to the job description for a full description of the role.