CAMHS Liaison Consultant Psychiatrist, BaNES

Oxford Health NHS Trust; Melksham; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to enhance their CAMHS liaison service. This role involves developing comprehensive interventions for young people, ensuring clinical leadership, and responding to emergency presentations. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in the field, relevant qualifications, and a passion for improving youth mental health services.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience of clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry.
• Experience of working at consultant level in CAMHS.

Responsibilities

• Develop the CAMHS liaison service to reduce avoidable admissions.
• Provide clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team.
• Respond to emergency presentations and conduct Mental Health Act assessments.

Skills

Clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Application of the Mental Health Act

Culturally sensitive practices

Service development

Team leadership

Education

Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Job description

Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)?

As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people.

This service will look to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them to receive the right interventions and services.

You will require level 3 specialist safeguarding training to include an awareness and understanding of child maltreatment, appropriate referral mechanisms and information sharing. You will respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult and support colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations working as part of the MDT and CAMHS colleagues.

You will be flexible in the ability to cover the three bases District General Hospital's (DGHs), the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital.

*This job description and person specification has been sent to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' for approval.*

Main duties of the job

You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer across BSW which will need to consider medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them so they receive the right interventions and services for them. This will also include developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home treatment Service (CaHTs) which accepts referrals for young people in crisis and requiring intensive home treatment and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions for young people

You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on their caseload and other medical staff under his/her supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working the post holder will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but is not medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. The post holder will be required to be available to respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult to and support team members and wider colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk presentations. Consultation to other teams and services is also required to support with formulation and care planning for young people that fall within a CAMHS Liaison remit.

About us

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 35 days after seven years seniorityo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.

You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services:

BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube

Find out more about living and working in BSW here:

Living and Working | Oxford Health

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines
• Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
• A higher degree such as MD or PhD
• Additional clinical qualifications
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice.
• In good standing with RCPsych with respect to CPD.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
• Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
• Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Experience of working at consultant level in a CAMHS Community or Inpatient setting

organisational skills and abililties

• Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role modelling these behaviours.
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
• Formal leadership and management training
• Experience of team /service leadership
• Experience of organisational development work
• Project management ability

Other Requirements

• oFull registration
• oMeet specifications set out in the GMC
• oIndependently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites

Clinical Skills and Supervision

• Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Expertise in risk assessment
• Confident in therapeutic risk taking
• Commitment to clinical governance
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
• Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors

Teaching

• Experience in teaching resident doctors
• Good teaching and communication skills
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals

Research and Audit

• Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice
• Audit or other quality improvement experience
• Experience of grant-funded project work
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

Other requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• UK driving licence or evidence of proposed alternative.
• Access to a vehicle for work purposes (adjustments can be made in line with the equality act)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearper annum pro-rata