CAMHS Specialist Grade Doctor: Tier 3 Community Sutton

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

We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Specialist Grade Psychiatrist to join our CAMHS team in Sutton, a leafy suburb of South West London. The postholder will work with a senior CAMHS Consultant and other experienced Mental Health Clinicians within the Service. This is a full time, 10PA substantive post. However, part time working can be negotiated. This is a new post due to configuration of services. To be eligible for this post, candidates must have a minimum of 12 years clinical experience, including 6 years in Psychiatry.

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 with the Consultant and senior leadership team. The candidate can take up a special interest and/or take an active role in teaching. 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

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 a Learning Disability Service together with the National CAMHS Deaf Service and a Neurodevelopmental Team. The Trust is committed to the development of career pathways for Specialty Doctors and applicants can be supported through CESR process if they wish.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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. If you are a dynamic and established Specialist Psychiatrist, fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice as well as holding S12 approval under the Mental Health Act or you are a Specialty Doctor within six – nine months of being eligible for this grade, we would be delighted to hear from you. To be eligible for this Specialist Grade role, it is a requirement that you have a minimum 12 years clinical experience 6 of which must be in Psychiatry.

Person specification

• Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCPsych (or equivalent)
• Paper A and B Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Additional clinical qualifications
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of appointment
• Approved under S12 or able to achieve within 6 months of appointment
• Minimum 12 years’ experience post qualification and at least 6 of those in the specialty (psychiatry) with at least 2 year in CAMHS

• Clinical knowledge

• Excellent clinical skills in the assessment and management of complex mental health conditions in children and adolescents
• Training and experience in working with systems and agencies to support children and adolescents mental health
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Excellent knowledge in speciality
• Knowledge and experience in psychopharmacology as applicable to CAMHS
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• Experience in a variety of therapies

• Academic skills and lifelong learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Excellent written and oral communication skills or willing to undertake training to improve this
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
• Participated or demonstrate willingness to participate in continuous professional development
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
• Has actively participated or demonstrate a willingness to participate in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit or service improvement e.g. prizes or awards
• Evidence of improving patient outcomes through service change or audit

At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion. As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace: BME (Evolve) Staff Network, DiverseAbility Mental Health Staff Forum, Women’s Staff Network, LGBTQIA+.

We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and have signed the Armed Forces Covenant. We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.