# Consultant Psychiatrist -  CAMHS Learning Disability

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London, Tooting
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to work within our Child & Adolescent Learning Disability Service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service to provide consultation to specialist CAMHS for children and young people with moderate to profound intellectual disability, some of whom may have significant co-morbid mental health needs.

The role is being offered on a permanent basis, alongside a tailored management leadership programme for those individuals who would be interested in pursuing this.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide consultation and liaison with clinicians in Tier 2 and 3 services for patients resident within the boroughs of Richmond and Kingston

- Referrals to and liaison with Tier 4 providers

- Education and support for Tier 1 referrers

- Provide clinical support for the team and provide psychiatric oversight to the team

- Provide emergency consultation, liaison, advice, management and appropriate support to professionals within the team and in the wider network of the child, young person or family

- Work in partnership with young people, parents and carers to develop and implement effective and agreed care plans

- Contribute to the development of multidisciplinary and multiagency packages of care, treatment and support for young people and their families with complex mental health, physical health and social care presentations

**Person Specification:**

- Primary Medical degree and CCT Specialist Registration

- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

- Included on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT

- Approved Clinician status (or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment)

- Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act (or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment)

- Completed minimum of three years full-time training in approved Higher Psychiatric training scheme

- A detailed knowledge of main treatment approaches for severe mental illness including psychopharmacological interventions

- Minimum two years experience working with children and/or adolescents in a multidisciplinary setting

- Experience of working with learning disabilities/ neurodevelopmental disorders

**Benefits:**

- Flexible working

- Career development

- A variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment

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## Skills

### Required
- Psychiatry
- Learning Disabilities
- CAMHS
- Mental Health

### Nice to have
- CBT
- DBT
- MBT
- Change Management
- Service Development

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