Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist-Learning Disability

We are currently looking for a 2 PA locum consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist to work within our Learning Disability Team in Harrow CAMHS (CNWL) for 12 months to cover maternity leave and provide additional support to the team. This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated doctor with interest/experience in LD and creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultant colleagues and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, children's services, Tier 4 services and allied health professionals., This 2 session post is within the Harrow CAMHS LD team. The Learning Disability Team in Harrow CAMHS see young people with a moderate or severe learning disability presenting with significant mental health problems and/or challenging behaviour and offers assessment and management of comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.

Central and North West London (CNWL) specialises in caring for people with a wide range of mental and physical health needs and is one of the largest mental health trusts in England. Each CAMHS service has its own local management structure: Harrow CAMHS has a Lead Psychiatrist, Therapies lead and team manager who work closely with their service manager (who is responsible for Harrow, Hillingdon and Westminster CAMHS). Each sub-team has a psychiatry and therapy lead and they, together with the team and service manager form the local senior management team which meets monthly. The postholder will be part of the SMT.

The Harrow CAMHS team is well established and staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using a range of therapeutic interventions including behaviour, systemic, CBT, IPT-A, DBT, psycho-dynamic and group therapies as well as psychopharmacological approaches. Harrow CAMHS is a Tier 3 service, accepting referrals from GPs, paediatrics, schools and Children's Services. The service has active service user groups for young people and parents. The team has a monthly CPD session and local care quality meeting, a doctors meeting twice a month which includes peer group case discussions, a weekly local consultants meeting and a monthly senior management meeting which the postholder will be part of.

www.cnwl.nhs.uk

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus London weighting of £2162 per annum pro rata