Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - Locum

Main area Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Locum Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Locum) Hours Part time – 18.75 hours per week (0.5 WTE) Job ref 260-TP-871

Employer Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Tavistock Centre Town London Salary £105,504 – £139,882 per annum (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/03/2025 23:59

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Locum

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Job overview

Are you a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with a passion for working with children and young people? Are you interested in working in a dynamic and innovative CAMHS team?

This is an exciting opportunity for a child and adolescent psychiatrist to join one of our well-established, diverse and supportive CAMHS teams.

Fostering and Adoption Kinship Care Team (FAKCT) is a CAMHS service supporting children and young people’s emotional wellbeing needs with evidence-based therapeutic interventions. FAKCT comprises a varied multi-disciplinary team, staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including educational psychologists, child psychotherapists, social workers, systemic family therapists, refugee care specialists and trainees from those disciplines.

FAKCT is part of the Child Complex Service within the Complex Mental Health Service Line. We work closely with partners from referring local authorities, schools and voluntary agencies.

Candidates are requested to use the section “Supporting Information” on the application form to set out their reasons for applying and their suitability, referring to the person specification, for this post.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide the child and adolescent psychiatry contribution to the multidisciplinary team including consultation and support to the team.
2. Attend weekly team meetings and contribute to the Assessment Clinics.
3. Provide psychiatric assessments including assessment of risk to self and others as part of the integrated MDT team, in a range of settings as required.
4. Take part in Mental Health Act assessments if required on cases on caseload during working hours.
5. Provide consultation to other members of the team regarding cases held by the team, and psychiatric input to these cases.
6. To hold a caseload of cases generally of high complexity, usually jointly with other team members, and provide psychopharmacology if appropriate.
7. To provide high quality psychiatric reports, which are accessible to a multiagency audience, to assist other agencies to plan their service in light of a child or young person’s mental health difficulties.
8. To contribute to data collection, audit, QI and outcome monitoring.
9. Provide medical and non-medical interventions alongside team colleagues, join multidisciplinary reviews, and develop clear co-created care plans.
10. To be an active member of the senior staff group within the team and undertake leadership and service development duties as required.

Person specification

Clinical Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of getting CCT
• Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experience relevant to post withing NHS or comparable service.

Experience

• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Experience in the psychiatric assessment and treatment of children and young people with Neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD and ASC.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Able to deliver postgraduate teaching and training
• Evidence of working flexibly with team members and with young people providing appointments in a range of community settings.
• Section 12 approved or eligible to apply

Academic Skill & Lifelong Learning

• Ability to work in and provide clinical leadership
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation. Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation. Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Dexter Benjamin Job title Clinical Team Manager Email address Additional information

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