Consultant Psychiatrist: CAMHS (BaNES)

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to enhance mental health services for children and adolescents. This role involves leadership within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring quality care and collaboration with various agencies. Candidates must possess appropriate GMC registration and experience in managing complex psychiatric cases. A competitive benefits package is offered, along with career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Excellent career progression opportunities

NHS Discount across many retailers

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

33 days annual leave per annum

Qualifications

• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval.
• Expertise in managing complex needs in children and adolescents.
• Experience in effective multidisciplinary and multiagency partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Diagnose and manage children and adolescents with mental health issues.
• Collaborate with team members for effective service delivery.

Skills

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Multidisciplinary Team Working

Clinical Leadership

Communication Skills

Professional Collaboration

Education

Eligibility for GMC Specialist Registration

Higher degree in relevant field

Job description

Overview

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire? You will work within an active and supportive multidisciplinary team (BaNES Getting More Help Team). As a Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision. We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within an active and supportive multidisciplinary team (the BaNES Getting More Help Team). With the team manager and senior members of the team, you will be expected to develop an active leadership role. You will have medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on the caseload of the Consultant and other medical staff under his/her supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working, you will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but you are not medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. Collaboration and liaison with other members of the team is an essential part of the management of the assessment and treatment of referrals to the clinic. The team operates in close liaison with the Getting Help team which operates as a single point of access for all CAMHS service and screens referrals from GPs, Paediatricians and Education and Social Services. The Getting Help team offers therapeutic input to less complex cases. Emergency referrals can be made by agencies direct to the Getting More Help Team.

About us

It is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service! We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS. Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project. If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people's mental health and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients. At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Benefits

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
• 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority

Job details

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed overview of the vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
• Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric speciality OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.

Desirable

• Higher degree/diploma or equivalent in relevant field of medical or psychological studies
• Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years and/or previous consultant experience
• Sub-specialty or other specialist clinical training relevant to post.
• Membership or Fellowship of The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Experience

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working.
• Experience of effective multiagency partnership at work.
• Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with emerging personality disorders, conduct and behavioural problems.
• Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services
• Ability to undertake full range of Consultant responsibilities.

Desirable

• Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group.
• Development of multidisciplinary teamwork, close collaboration with Primary Care services, and working with a multiagency approach, including education, health and social care.
• High training placement in Adolescent Psychiatry

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions. The ability to assume a medical leadership role within the team and to work closely with senior managers to implement trust objectives
• Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively.
• Commitment to multiagency partnership
• Ability to promote effective team working
• The ability to prioritise workload and respond in a timely, flexible manner to requests for consultation from colleagues
• The ability to use electronic records and diaries
• Clinical audit.
• Must have excellent skills in communication with patients, relatives/carers, colleagues and staff of other organisations.
• Experience of Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
• Must be skilled in professional collaboration.
• Experience in supervising basic level psychiatric trainees
• Must have an interest in and commitment to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Honesty and integrity
• High energy levels
• Flexibility to cope with service change and demanding clinical challenges

Desirable

• Relevant experience of administrative and management role or senior medical staff.
• Teaching qualification.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Full GMC registration
• Meet specifications set out in the GMC
• Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites

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