Consultant Psychiatrist: CAMHS Salisbury

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Wiltshire is looking for a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to lead a CAMHS team. This role includes clinical leadership, patient management, and participation in interdisciplinary collaboration. A supportive environment with flexible working arrangements and relocation benefits. The ideal candidate will have consultant psychiatrist qualifications and experience in mental health services.

Benefits

£15,000 recruitment bonus

Relocation allowance up to £8,000

Flexible working arrangements

Integrated multidisciplinary environment

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and input to the CAMHS team.
• Manage and follow up patients, participating in risk assessment.
• Contribute to assessment and management of emergencies.
• Collaborate with the MDT for clinical management.
• Engage in service development to improve mental health outcomes.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental Health Act assessment

Collaboration in multidisciplinary team

Service development

Education

Consultant Psychiatrist qualifications

Job description

Overview

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing CAMHS in Wiltshire? We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We support flexible working practices. We have a consultant opportunity in our Salisbury CAMHS 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. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision. You will provide clinical leadership and medical input to the team and take responsibility for patients seen by yourself and by medical staff directly supervised by you. You will work with other consultants in the team on the clinical governance of the team as clinical leads for the team. The team will assess all emergencies referred to it within a day of referral, including responsibility for Mental Health Act assessment of patients when necessary. The Consultant is not expected to make initial assessments, except in certain circumstances. The Consultant psychiatrists will work in partnership within the multidisciplinary team for the clinical management of patients, including risk assessment, assessment of carers needs, and development of services to meet the needs of patients and families for whom the team is responsible. The Swindon team has a robust system to arrange cross-cover to ensure psychiatry availability. There is a weekly clinical team meeting which the Consultant is expected to join as part of the clinical MDT.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and input to the CAMHS team, including governance responsibilities as part of the clinical leadership group.
• Manage and follow up patients seen by yourself and by supervised medical staff; participate in risk assessment and care planning with the MDT.
• Contribute to the assessment and management of emergencies referred to the CAMHS service within one day of referral; undertake Mental Health Act assessments when necessary.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team for clinical management and service development, including involvement in education and supervision.
• Engage in service development across the patch to improve child and adolescent mental health outcomes.

Service Context

This post is substantive CAMHS Consultant Psychiatry post with the multidisciplinary team in Swindon, covering CAMHS in south Wiltshire in the Getting More Help service and Neurodevelopmental assessment clinic (NDC) or CAMHS Learning Disability team. The team also provides input to the Eating Disorders Service (TEDS) and offers CAMHS Getting Help Services, a Crisis and Home Treatment Service, and outreach work for hard-to-engage young people. There are Mental Health Support Teams in local schools and In-Reach to the Bath and North East Somerset Local Authority. A mixed model of treatment with digital and face-to-face working is offered. We support flexible working; if you would like to work differently or different hours, please discuss this with us.

About OHFT and Service Model

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) participates in the BSW service, delivering the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. OHFT 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. We work with our BSW ICB, Local Authorities, NHS providers and Third Sector Partners to transform services for young people up to 25.

Requirements and Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements are available and discussed with applicants.
• Eligibility criteria applies.
• + £15,000 recruitment bonus
• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000
• A supportive and integrated multidisciplinary environment