Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Richmond

Job overview

Consultant Psychiatrist - Part Time 7PAs

We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to join our CAMHS team in Richmond. The postholder will join 12 CAMHS Consultants within the Trust Service Line. This is a part time, 7 PAs (5PA’s in T3 Richmond CAMHS and 2 PAs in the Kingston and Richmond CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) Service), substantive post. This post has become available due to the previous post-holder retiring.

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.

Main duties of the job

The post is within a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) 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 MDT committed to continual learning and development and will be offered excellent CPD opportunities.

The post-holder will be responsible to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Clinical Director of Southwest 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 Richmond 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 a Learning Disability Service together with a Deaf Service and a Neurodevelopmental Team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Southwest 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 Southwest 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’.

Please refer to the  Job Description for more information about the role.