Within three months, you will establish effective panel leadership across sessional multidisciplinary diagnostic meetings. By six months, you will streamline report review workflows to maintain high diagnostic rigour while ensuring timely completion. By twelve months, you will embed quality audit findings into continuous pathway improvements.

• Chair multidisciplinary diagnostic panels to reach evidence-based consensus for complex paediatric autism and ADHD referrals.
• Conduct specialist psychiatric assessments, differential evaluations, and medication consultations where clinically indicated.
• Review and sign off integrated diagnostic reports, ensuring clinical formulations are transparent, defensible, and strengths-based.
• Maintain clinical governance compliance in line with GMC standards and CQC fundamental standards.
• Provide clinical supervision and diagnostic advice to allied healthcare professionals within the multidisciplinary team.

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise and entry on the Specialist Register in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, or General Adult Psychiatry with documented neurodevelopmental expertise.
• Demonstrated clinical experience conducting autism and ADHD evaluations in children and young people.
• Proven expertise chairing multidisciplinary clinical panels and facilitating complex diagnostic formulations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of UK safeguarding standards, CQC regulatory frameworks, and neurodiversity-affirming practice.

The provider is an independent, CQC-regulated healthcare service specialising in paediatric neurodevelopmental assessments. Working alongside clinical psychology, speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy specialists, the service delivers evidence-based care to children, young people, and their families.

What is the working structure for this sessional Consultant Psychiatrist role?

This is a sessional, hybrid position offering flexible working arrangements. The Consultant Psychiatrist chairs multidisciplinary diagnostic panels, reviews complex patient evaluations, and provides overall clinical sign-off, working alongside an integrated multidisciplinary team comprising clinical psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and specialist nurses.

What specialist qualifications are required for this position?

Candidates must hold full GMC registration with an active licence to practise. You must be on the GMC Specialist Register in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, or General Adult Psychiatry with documented experience in paediatric neurodevelopmental conditions and multidisciplinary panel leadership.

How are diagnostic decisions handled within this service?

Diagnostic outcomes are formulated collaboratively within multidisciplinary panels chaired by the Consultant Psychiatrist. The panel synthesises findings across specialist nursing, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy assessments. This ensures each diagnosis is based on a defensible, multi-professional clinical formulation rather than single-observer assessment.