CAMHS Consultant - Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway (ADHD)

Key Responsibilities:1) Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care. 2) Manage clinical caseload, including ensuring timely outcoming, referrals, transitions and discharges. Provide caseload data/action key caseload management targets as required.3) Provide strong clinical leadership and vision, in collaboration with 8a ADHD Pathway Lead, for the ADHD pathway and LARC medication clinic. 4) Supervision of non-consultant medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already. This is not a training post, but we are always looking for opportunities to take on new trainees. 5) Attending and chairing clinical meetings and attendance at external meetings (e.g. LARC clinic meeting, local service development meetings) as timetabled.6) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies7) Provision of consultation and advice to other CAMHS teams. 8) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings. 9) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric residents and multidisciplinary staff.10) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust. 11) Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 12) Maintain Section 12 and Approved Clinician approval. If the appointee is not Section 12 or AC approved, they will be expected to become so as soon as possible13) Cover for colleagues is prospective. 14) Attend monthly Senior Management Team meetings as timetabled, and fulfil SMT membership roles and responsibilities as a clinical leader The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section). Please refer to the job description for a full description of the role. Job description Job responsibilities Key Responsibilities:1) Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care. 2) Manage clinical caseload, including ensuring timely outcoming, referrals, transitions and discharges. Provide caseload data/action key caseload management targets as required.3) Provide strong clinical leadership and vision, in collaboration with 8a ADHD Pathway Lead, for the ADHD pathway and LARC medication clinic. 4) Supervision of non-consultant medical staff. It is expected the post holder will be an accredited clinical supervisor, or will become so if not already. This is not a training post, but we are always looking for opportunities to take on new trainees. 5) Attending and chairing clinical meetings and attendance at external meetings (e.g. LARC clinic meeting, local service development meetings) as timetabled.6) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies7) Provision of consultation and advice to other CAMHS teams. 8) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings. 9) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric residents and multidisciplinary staff.10) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust. 11) Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 12) Maintain Section 12 and Approved Clinician approval. If the appointee is not Section 12 or AC approved, they will be expected to become so as soon as possible13) Cover for colleagues is prospective. 14) Attend monthly Senior Management Team meetings as timetabled, and fulfil SMT membership roles and responsibilities as a clinical leader The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section). Please refer to the job description for a full description of the role.