Fixed-Term Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist


Company:	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£113,565 - £150,569 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Kent / London, SE5 8AZ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	30 Oct 2026
Closing date:	29 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 7-month fixed term appointment for an Inpatient Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. This will initially be based at Tyson East 2 ward at the Bethlem Hospital although the post holder’s tenure will cover the transition of the ward to its permanent home at the Maudsley Adolescent Unit at the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People. Applicants would need to be able to work on both sites. This is a full-time post although applicants who wished to work part time are still encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will be S12/AC approved and will provide clinical leadership to the service and take consultant responsibility for patients (both informal and detained) on the ward.

The role is full time (10 sessions) with 7.5 DCC sessions and 2.5 SPA sessions.

Start date is from End of December 2026.

The consultant role involves clinical and medical leadership for both the MDT and junior medical staff. This involves direct assessment of all admissions, formulation of treatment plans in conjunction with the MDT, liaison with other agencies (both clinical and non-clinical), supervision of junior medical staff, chairing of meetings with both clinical and non-clinical agenda, and facilitating discharge through the CPA process.

We work in partnership with colleagues in neighbouring Trusts (Oxleas and South West London and St George’s) as the South London Partnership (SLP) in providing adolescent inpatient care. Adolescent inpatient services are provided by the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) through three wards: TE2/MAU, the Bethlem Adolescent Unit (BAU) and the Bethlem Adolescent Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (BAPICU). Aquarius and Wisteria wards provide general adolescent and eating disorder inpatient services respectively at Springfield Hospital as part of the SLPs integrated inpatient pathway. This gives young people cared for by the SLP access to a broad range of services, without recourse to care far from home.

The successful applicant will also join the SLaM consultant CAMHS on-call rota (see On-call Section).

There are excellent opportunities for professional development including management, training, research, and audit experience.

Benefits

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.

Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.

Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.

NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services

• Wellbeing events

• Long service awards

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Childcare vouchers

• Staff restaurants

Key Responsibilities:

1) Assessment and management of children and young people, and to provide psychiatric input for both routine and emergency clinical care.

2) Supervision of resident medical staff.

3) Attending and chairing clinical meetings as timetabled.

4) Liaising and communicating with the MDT, other professionals, teams and agencies

5) Strong clinical leadership

6) Provision of advice to other CAMHS teams.

7) Participation in peer and group supervision meetings.

8) Participation in training of medical students, psychiatric trainees and multidisciplinary staff.

9) Adherence to agreed job plan and appraisal procedures set by the Trust.

10) Maintain GMC registration, maintain a License to Practice and participate in CPD to remain in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. If required, the post holder will be supported to join or develop a local peer group for CPD purposes.

11) 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 possible.

12) Cover for colleagues is prospective.

Please refer to the job description for a full description of the role.

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026

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