# Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This post is to provide consultant psychiatry input for the Service for Complex Autism and Associated Neurodevelopmental Diagnoses (SCAAND).

The successful applicant will work closely with the existing Consultant Child Psychiatrists and the other disciplines within SCAAND and may hold roles in other pathways.

The appointed Consultant Psychiatrist will join the existing MDT and is expected to lead in assessment and management plans.

The post holder will provide consultation but also work directly with children, adolescents and their families using specialist knowledge and expertise;

Quality improvement projects and client experience data collection are vital aspects of day-to-day work,

The post holder will be required to maintain Section 12 and Approved Clinician Status,

The team works in close collaboration with the Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT) and Orchids (an intensive intervention team for children under 13),

The post holder will be expected to play a major role in undertaking and encouraging other service clinicians to do likewise.

The Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package,

Some of the benefits include:

- Generous pay, pensions and leave

- Work life balance

- Career development

- Car lease

- Keyworker housing

- NHS discounts

- Counselling services

- Wellbeing events

- Long service awards

- Cycle to work scheme

- Season ticket loan

- Childcare vouchers

- Staff restaurants

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## Skills

### Required
- Completion of Higher Psychiatric Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Experience in psychopharmacology and assessing + treating complex autism and/ or ID with associated comorbidities
- Experience in clinical leadership and service development
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- CCT (or within 6 months of accreditation)
- Full GMC Registration and inclusion on Specialist GMC Register (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist)
- Sec 12 (2) and AC approved (or undertaking to obtain this before taking up the post

### Nice to have
- Experience in the use of ADOS, ADI-r
- Experience of psychopharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment modalities in children with mental illness in intellectual disability and autism and physical illness
- Experience in Paediatrics
- Inpatient experience
- Experience in liaison psychiatry
- Experience in relevant therapeutic practice e.g. DBT, CBT or Family Therapy

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