# Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health (CYPMH) service. The successful candidate will help manage referrals and assessments, working closely with our multidisciplinary team.

The role involves:

- Managing a caseload of approximately 60 patients

- Contributing to client management plans

- Developing treatment plans for new clients

- Assessing complex ADHD and other psychiatric conditions

- Offering consultation to the Access Team

- Teaching and supervising medical staff

- Participating in team meetings and governance processes

As a senior clinician, you will have a key role in the team's performance, service development, and clinical pathway design.

The Trust is transforming its CAMHS services using the THRIVE principles, and the successful candidate will contribute to delivering an effective and compassionate service.

The post is fixed-term for 12 months, full-time, with a salary of £113,565 to £150,569 per annum, plus London Weighting.

**Responsibilities** The main duties of the job include:

- To manage an established caseload of approximately 60 patients many of whom use medication

- To contribute to the management of clients under the care of non-medical staff and give medical input to their management plans

- To develop treatment plans for 2-3 new clients per month

- To contribute to assessment regarding complex ADHD and other types of complex psychiatric conditions

- To offer consultation to the Access Team one day per week via the weekly MDT and a joint assessment per week as needed

- To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures

- To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work

- To teach and supervise medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care

- To participate in the weekly team meeting and undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team

- To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded

- As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service line

**About Us** 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 to deliver an effective and compassionate service to the young people living within Barnet, Camden, Enfield and Haringey.

**Benefits** All new consultants will be provided with mentoring by experienced consultants to help develop in the role as medical leaders. The consultant will be invited to be part of the local Consultant CPD/Peer support group.

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## Skills

### Required
- bio-psycho-social perspective
- wide medical knowledge
- clinical complexity
- Mental Health Act
- MCA
- undergraduate teaching
- postgraduate teaching
- research
- service evaluation
- clinical audit
- quality improvement

### Nice to have
- medical education
- clinical research
- management
- additional clinical qualification

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