# Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Merton

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Mitcham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the CAMHS Tier 3 service in Merton at Birches House, Mitcham, Southwest London as a part-time Locum Consultant Psychiatrist.

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 population of Southwest London. We offer highly specialist CAMHS services, combining expertise in CYP moderate to severe mental health services, we are embedding I-Thrive across our Boroughs.

The Consultant will work in the Merton CAMHS Team which provides Multidisciplinary assessment, care co-ordination and treatment for young people identified as having a moderate mental health problem. The Consultant will carry overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery-focused care delivered by the Team.

Responsibilities:

- Provide medical leadership within the team

- Be available within normal working hours for urgent assessments, including mental health act assessments

- Conduct assessments in Tier 3, usually one-two a week, depending on active case load

- Provide treatment with medication and mental state monitoring

- Manage ADHD Shared care caseload of 80-100 and non-shared care caseload of 140

- Conduct CPA reviews with care coordinators and team members as agreed with the team manager

- Perform assessments at the local District General Hospitals for psychiatric emergencies

- Occasionally conduct psychiatric assessments outside the team base, e.g., home visits

- Attend occasional GP liaison meetings and meetings with colleagues in paediatrics and community paediatrics

- Liaise with the London Borough of Richmond children's social care and education departments

Requirements:

- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

- Full GMC registration with licence to practice

- CCT or equivalent in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

- Excellent knowledge in specialty, especially the assessment and management of neuro-developmental disorders in children and adolescents

- Wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

- Ability to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training

- Commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement

- Participation in continuous professional development, research, or service evaluation

Benefits:

- Flexible working

- Career development

- Variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment

## Skills

### Required
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Mental Health Act assessments
- Medication management
- ADHD Shared care

### Nice to have
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Additional clinical qualifications

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