Consultant Psychiatrist National ADHD and Autism Service

The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join the National Adult ADHD and Autism Clinic. This is a 9 PA post and depicts 6.75 DCC and 2.25 SPA sessions.

• To provide enthusiastic and flexible leadership and consultant input into the National ADHD And Autism Clinic, alongside the Clinic lead and Service Lead.
• The post holder is expected to run 9 clinics weekly (9 diagnostic assessment appointments or treatments.)
• To take consultant responsibility for the National ADHD and Autism Service patients, and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes.
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with complex neurodevelopmental and mental illness;
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments;
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals;
• In conjunction with the service and other team Consultant the post-holder will help to represent the unit at Trust level and at care pathway meetings;
• To keep up-to-date with all developments in research and treatment around neurodevelopmental disorders.
• To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders.
• The post-holder will be an integral part of the team involved in developing the National ADHD and Autism Clinic and our neurodevelopmental disorders services.
• Please note that if the balance of clinical activity changes the consultant may be required to alter the balance of the components of this post.
• The post holder will be expected to lead research. It is essential that he/she helps with ongoing research projects and facilitate the work of others.
• The post holder will be encouraged to become involved in sharing and developing their expertise as appropriate.
• The post-holder will need to be expert in initiating clinical audit on a range of matters relating to quality-of-service delivery and outcome.
• The post-hold will participate in disseminating knowledge about our service and our clinical/research outcomes.
• The consultant will need to be able to take up AC/RC responsibilities.
• The post-holder will take part in other clinical and organisational meetings as required .
• The post-holder will take part in the Trust clinical governance programme, including active involvement in clinical audit, assessment of untoward incidents.
• Key personnel and peer group
• The post-holder will be an integral part of the team involved in delivering and developing our wider neurodevelopmental disorders services.

The team consists of Consultant Psychiatrists, a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist/Clinic Lead, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2 x Assessment Nurses, and Administrators.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Saadia Arshad Job title: Associate Medical Director Email address: Saadia.Arshad@slam.nhs.uk