Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Merton

Job overview

Consultant Psychiatrist  10 PAs p/w

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the CAMHS Tier 3 service in Merton at Birches House, Mitcham, Southwest London as a Consultant Psychiatrist. The role is offered on a substantive full time basis with 10 PAs.

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 population of Southwest London. We offer highly specialist CAMHS services, combining expertise in CYP moderate to severe mental health services, we are embedding I-Thrive across our Boroughs.

We are looking for a consultant with the interest and skills in providing strong medical leadership to take our services forward. The role is being offered on a permanent basis, alongside a tailored management leadership programme for those individuals who would be interested in pursuing this.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to the CAMHS Tier 3 service in Merton at the Birches Close, Mitcham and will provide medical consultant psychiatric advice to patients.

The Consultant will work in the Merton CAMHS Team which provides Multidisciplinary assessment, care co-ordination and treatment for young people identified as having a moderate mental health problem.  While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team and broader services, being involved with the team manager and locality manager in helping to steer the development of the service in line with the strategic direction of the organisation.

The Consultant will carry overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team. Where problems arise, the Consultant will be afforded robust support by his clinical Team Manager, Associate Clinical Director, the Clinical Director and where necessary the Medical Director and Chief Executive.

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- two a week but depends on active case load
• Treatment with medication, mental state monitoring
• ADHD Shared care caseload 80-100
• 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 Richmond children’s social care and education departments