Consultant Lewisham CAMHS Horizon & Crisis | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	15 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	28 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	London, SE6 4JF
Cwmni:	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7739193/334-CHI-7739193-JA

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This substantive post is a new post, arisen following the increased demands of Lewisham CAMHS.It offers a unique opportunity to join an established and dynamic service in Lewisham CAMHS, within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be based within theHorizon Generic team and the CRISIS team in Lewisham CAMHS. The Generic role focuses on the assessment of, and provision of specific evidence-based interventions for young people with complex mental health difficulties. The CRISIS role comprises 7-day-follow up (when urgent medical assessment and treatment is required) to those Lewisham-based patients presenting at any ED and brief intervention.

This is a time of change and expansion in the medical team in Lewisham CAMHS. We have a number of well-established and experienced Consultants. This role is a 10 PA WTE.

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

This 10 PA post is split into DCC and SPA sessions: 7 PAs with Horizon team and 3 PAs with the CRISIS treatment team. The post benefits from 2.5 SPA time (in total, pro rata) - structured professional activities, during which the post holder will contribute to service development, research clinical governance and quality improvement, in addition to completing continuous professional development and pursuing other professional activities. Please see notional timetable below for how this could be split.

The Horizon team is a well-established service that also has another consultant psychiatrist (10 PAs split between Horizon generic team and ADHD team) as well as consultant psychology (part-time), psychotherapists (part-time) and family therapists (part-time) to support in the leadership of the team. The clinical service lead (Full time) is an experienced and highly efficient manager who manages the multidisciplinary team members. We offer specialist interventions following assessments to young people and includes individual work as well as group work. The team have a history of innovative ways of working and cater to young people and children aged 0 to 18 years who are registered with Lewisham GP.

The service has developed a very close working relationship with local partners and tier 2 services such as the MHST (Mental Health at Schools Team), CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners) teams and Community Paediatric team in Lewisham.

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

Other duties

The post-holder will be expected to provide Consultant leadership and medical cover.The weekly crisis second on-call cover is to those young people presenting in crisis – primarily at University Hospital Lewisham (UHL). This includes the Adult Majors, Minors, Paediatric ED and the Paediatric wards. The crisis team are well functioning team with nurses who will assess and escalate to junior doctors and to the post holder as needed.

This includes Emergency presentations or Paediatric ward review following admission at University Hospital Lewisham) within the borough in conjunction with the other consultants and resident doctors – to ensure that there is always appropriate senior medical cover. This supports the Crisis rota with the crisis team (supported by the Response Team). MHA assessments are rare and the post holder is expected to conduct them when needed and work with the crisis team to care plan.

Consultant Psychiatrists provide cross cover for these duties during leave periods. This is worked out by mutual agreement, and we are very good at maintaining excellent communication and relationships between consultant colleagues in Lewisham CAMHS. There is a regular team meeting and a Teams channel to maintain close working relationships.

How this post is supported

There is support from an experienced administration team, coordinated by the Borough Business Manager. The postholder will be supported administratively through this team.

The successful candidate will have an office (likely shared with one other Consultant Psychiatrist). They have their own desk, computer (work laptop) and telephone (landline and work mobile) with access to IT support. The team has administrative support.

Non car drivers can access transport for essential clinical journeys.

There is scope to develop specialism within the overall role to this service.

Psychiatric Trainees and SAS Doctors

Lewisham CAMHS benefits from the support of one Core Trainee (CT1-3) and two Specialist Trainees (ST4-6) on the South London and Maudsley training schemes. However, this is due to change due to wider national ‘levelling up agenda’ (in which London is expected to lose a significant number of training posts).

The Training Programme Director for CAMHS Specialist Trainees is Dr Dan Hayes, Consultant Psychiatrist. This is not a training post, but you will be involved in supporting the trainees through both formal and informal teaching, as opportunity arises.

Timetable

This is a notional timetable. It can be adapted to meet the needs of the post holder and the service, in the context of the job planning process with the lead clinician. There will be a 7.5 / 2.5 DCC / SPA split. Although there are no specific additional responsibilities associated with the post, the post holder would be encouraged to take up additional roles commensurate with their seniority and interests, to be incorporated into their negotiated job. These could include lead roles in education and training (undergraduate or postgraduate), safeguarding, clinical governance etc.

The consultant role involves providing clinical and medical leadership for both the MDT and junior medical staff.



Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

am

Crisis Team –

Team meeting

Huddle

DCC HORIZON Clinic +admin

Crisis Team – Clinic + admin

SPA

SPA

Clinic Admin



DCC HORIZON Clinic +admin

pm

Crisis Team – Clinic + admin

HORIZON team Meeting



DCC – FOLLOW-UP

DCC HORIZON Clinic +admin

Advisory meeting (monthly)



SPA

DCC HORIZON Clinic +admin CAMHS weekend handover


This advert closes on Sunday 8 Feb 2026