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Job summary

Main area
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Locum)
Hours
Part time - 3 sessions per week
Job ref
334-CHI-7174308-JA
Employer
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Michael Rutter Centre
Town
London
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Closing
10/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust logo

Locum Consultant General Paediatrician (N&S MCCAED) (CAMHS)

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

 

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives  in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology  to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust. 

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

We are delighted to invite applications for a 3 PA Locum Consultant General Paediatrician to join the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders  (MCCAED). 
MCCAED is situated within the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the most comprehensive mental health service for children and young people in the country. This is the sole Consultant Paediatrician Post within the service. 

Main duties of the job

This post would be suitable for a Consultant General Paediatrician with a special interest in child and adolescent eating disorders. The successful candidate will primarily support the work of the ARFID service within MCCAED and also provide paediatric consultation and advice across the wider eating disorder service. In addition to extensive opportunities to develop expertise in this area, there are also excellent opportunities for quality improvement activities, research, teaching and training.

Working for our organisation

About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters) 

The post will be located on the Maudsley site, location of our Trust headquarters, which is less than 5 minutes from Denmark Hill train station (zone 2). In the next few months our clinic will be moving from the Michael Rutter Centre to a larger new purpose-built clinic with state-of-the-art facilities on the same site called the Pears Maudsley Centre.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will have the following key areas of responsibility: 
•    Provide general paediatric assessment, advice and consultation for patients under the ARFID service with a range of comorbid conditions. 
•    Support the development of multi-disciplinary treatment plans for each patient
•    Liaise with wider paediatric services regarding the care of children and adolescents in the ARFID service.  
•    Liaise with other health professionals and social care teams as necessary to support appropriate care for patients.
•    Support and advise colleagues regarding the paediatric care of children and adolescents with ARFID
•    Provide paediatric consultation and advice to the wider eating disorder service i.e. Outpatient Eating Disorder Service, START and Intensive Therapy service 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registerable medical qualification
  • MRCPCH or equivalent
  • Full Registration with GMC and Name on Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT date, and is expected to achieve a CCT
Desirable criteria
  • Other higher degree or diploma e.g. MD

Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Wide experience in all aspects of general paediatrics, culminating in award of CCT or equivalent.
  • Specialist training in general paediatrics Evidenced Level 3 safeguarding training
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of mental health training, or paediatric nutrition or paediatric endocrinology

Administration

Essential criteria
  • Experience in day-to-day organisation of general paediatric services in a busy Teaching Hospital
Desirable criteria
  • Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of service development and managing change in the workplace
  • Management course and/or qualification

Audit, research and publications

Essential criteria
  • Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.
  • Understanding of clinical research
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of child health
  • Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Employer certification / accreditation badges

London Healthy workplaceCapital Nurse, LondonNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall Silver 2022Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Armed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Philippa Hugo
Job title
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Email address
[email protected]
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