Consultant Psychiatrist for Children and Adolescents

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a part-time Consultant Psychiatrist for Children and Adolescents to join a community specialist team in Reading. The role involves assessing and treating young patients with mental health disorders, ensuring quality care and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. The position offers competitive annual compensation and opportunities for learning and career development.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

'Cycle to Work' scheme

Access to wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at popular retailers

Qualifications

• Must maintain professional registration with GMC.
• Experience in managing children with complex mental health needs.
• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat children and adolescents with mental health disorders.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies.
• Contribute to planning and coordinating mental health services for families.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Team collaboration

Ability to manage clinical complexity

Knowledge in psychiatry

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Included on the GMC Specialist Register

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist for Children and Adolescents

We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our innovative and experienced community specialist CAMHS team in Berkshire West.

This is a replacement post for a 6 PAs community CAMHS consultant psychiatrist vacancy in our West Specialist Community team (Wokingham locality).

The role is mainly based at the stunning Erlegh House, based in the grounds of Reading University. There will be some travel required to other trust sites for meetings and a small element of home working.

The Consultant will be based within the West Business Unit which covers the localities of Wokingham, Reading and Newbury. Each unitary authority brings its own population needs and demographics. The Consultant will be primarily responsible for the provision of psychiatric services to children and young people living in the Wokingham locality, but will work collaboratively with the other Consultants within the West Business Unit, to ensure that psychiatric services are provided relative to demand across the unit as well as contributing to cross cover across all CAMH services to ensure safe patient care.

The Multi-Disciplinary Team provides an outpatient Tier 3 Specialist CAMH service to children and adolescents up to their eighteenth birthday in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health disorders. We have a good working relationship with the adult services and there is a trust-wide transition policy.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant should be oriented towards a team approach and work closely with other CAMHS teams such as CAMHS Common Point of Entry (CPE), CAMHS Rapid Response (Crisis team), CAMHS Phoenix (Tier 4 alternative to admission adolescent unit), parents/carers, other CYPF colleagues including Community Paediatricians, the Children & Young People's Integrated Therapy Team, Health Visitors, School Nurses, General Practitioners, Children's Social Care and other local authority services, schools and partners as well as other clinical support staff in the Trust and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

The Consultant Role will include the following Clinical Duties

Contribution to the assessment of children and young people presenting to the team.

Treatment of children and young people with mental health disorders, tailored to their individual needs, in a multi-disciplinary setting.

It is expected that the Consultant's caseload will vary depending on the complexity of clinical presentations of the young people seen. This will be agreed in regular caseload supervision with the line manager.

Consultation and collaboration with other agencies in the assessment and treatment of complex presentations.

Meetings and consultations with other members of the team and external agencies as required.

Planning and co-ordinating mental health services for children, young people and families, where appropriate.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

o Caring for and about you is our top priority

o Committed to providing good quality, safe services

o Working Together with you to dev`elop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

Flexible working options to support work-life balance.

27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.

Free parking across Trust sites

Job responsibilities

The 4 must haves for this role:

To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, be on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.

Able to provide supportive clinical leadership to the clinical team

Enthusiastic and self-motivated

Have a good sense of humour

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call Marie Duffield, Service Manager on email: [e-mail] who will be delighted to help.

We would encourage interested applicants to contact Dr Anne Carbonnier, Interim Medical Lead for CAMHS ([e-mail]) for more information and informal discussion.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Additional clinical qualifications
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with mental health and learning disability problems alongside behavioural issues.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Ability to work in and lead team.
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to service users

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

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.

University of Reading - CAMHS West Specialist Community Team

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

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

371-CFS584

Job locations

University of Reading - CAMHS West Specialist Community Team