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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualifications
Full GMC registration with licence to practise.
- Qualifications
CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or within six months of CCT at interview.
- Qualifications
Entry on GMC Specialist Register or eligibility.
- Personal qualities
Commitment to NHS values, inclusion, compassionate leadership, reflective practice, team working and continuous improvement.
- Personal qualities
bility to work in a busy service while maintaining professional standards.
- Clinical experience
Substantial experience in CAMHS.
- Clinical experience
Experience of assessment and management of ADHD and neurodevelopmental presentations.
- Clinical experience
Experience of psychopharmacology in children and young people. Ability to manage complexity, risk, safeguarding and comorbidity.
- Research and innovation
Understanding of research governance and evidence-based practice. Willingness to support innovation and evaluation.
- Teaching and supervision
Ability and willingness to teach, supervise and support junior doctors, medical students and MDT colleagues.
- Leadership and management
Ability to provide consultant leadership within an MDT.
- Leadership and management
Ability to support service development, clinical governance, demand and capacity discussions and safe pathway management.
- Quality improvement and audit
Understanding of clinical governance, audit and QI.
- Quality improvement and audit
Ability to use data and feedback to improve care.
- Quality improvement and audit
Commitment to using protected QI/audit PA for pathway improvement.
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Higher degree or additional qualification relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders, medical education, leadership, QI or research.
- Personal qualities
Experience of co-production with young people/families or partnership work with schools/local authority/VCSE.
- Clinical experience
Specific experience in ADHD pathway leadership, shared care development, complex neurodevelopmental assessment or prescribing governance.
- Research and innovation
Research experience, publications or participation in NIHR portfolio studies.
- Teaching and supervision
Clinical supervisor or educational supervisor accreditation.
- Leadership and management
Formal leadership training or evidence of leading service redesign.
- Quality improvement and audit
Completed QI project, audit cycle or publication/presentation related to CAMHS, ADHD or neurodevelopmental care.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, skilled, approachable and motivated specialty doctor to join the Haringey CAMHS team to help in managing the care of young people living within the north central London and collaborative. This is an excellent opportunity for a consultant (Acting up consultant) to help lead a and work with a well-functioning ADHD team and established community CAMHS team with a diverse multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
This is a post that has arisen as the current consultant has gone on maternity leave. The appointed person will expected to provide an effective and timely service to the young people living in the borough of Haringey with ADHD and needing a service either for medication or associated co-morbidity.
The person appointed to the post will be encouraged to innovate with consultant colleagues and pursue research interest. We have excellent links with the academic child and adolescent research unit based at University College London CAMHS research unit. The post holder will be encouraged to participate in various QI projects with the service and will also be encouraged to come up with new QI projects as appropriate.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The trust is embarking on an ambitious transformation of services within CAMHS using the THRIVE principles and the candidate would be encouraged to develop and contribute towards these changes in order to deliver an effective and compassionate service to the young people living within Haringey.
All new doctors will be provided with mentoring by experienced consultants to help develop in their role. The specialty doctor will be invited to be part of the local Consultant CPD/Peer support group. The postholder will be encouraged to use the CESR/pathway portfolio route to converting his/her experience to become a consultant.
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Psychiatrist with North London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum plus London Weighting of £2,162 per annum pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term until 31st September 2027). The application deadline is 05 Nov 2026.
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