Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Richmond
A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Tier 3 Richmond
Temporary Base:
Livingstone House,Teddington,TW11 0LR
New Richmond CAMHS Service Base:
Richmond Royal Hospital Richmond:TW9 2TE
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, mature service to provide both medical and psychological treatment for individuals and families with severe mental health needs. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to lead on service development in line with Trust principles and governed by national standards.
The post is within a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) providing a community service and has close links with local authority, education, and the wider borough structure. The post holder will be joining a skilled, motivated, and innovative MDT committed to continual learning and development and will be offered excellent CPD opportunities.
We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to join our CAMHS team in Richmond. The postholder will join 12 CAMHS Consultants within the Trust Service Line. This is a part time, 9 PAs (5PA’s in T3 Richmond CAMHS and 4 PAs in the Kingston and Richmond Single Point of Access Service), substantive post.This post has become available due to the previous post-holder retiring.
The post-holder will be responsible to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Clinical Director of Southwest London St George’s Mental Health Trust.
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 boroughs of Richmond, Sutton, Kingston, Merton and Wandsworth.
The local Richmond CAMHS team is highly specialist comprising of family therapy, psychology, risk management nurses and DBT specialist. The team has access to trust wide services such as the DBT group program, eating disorder service, emergency services covering the 3 acute hospitals served by the Trust and a Learning Disability Service together with a Deaf Service and a Neurodevelopmental Team.
We are Proud to Belong at Southwest London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history, and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available *terms and conditions apply*
Southwest London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in Southwest London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Please refer attached JDPS for detailed Job Description
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025