General Practitioner with Special Interest in CAMHS (Mental Health)

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Sale; On-site; GBP 73,000 - 111,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated General Practitioner with a Special Interest in CAMHS. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, providing essential care to children and young people facing neurodevelopmental challenges. You will join a highly skilled team, contributing to the assessment and management of ADHD and other mental health conditions. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, this position allows you to make a real difference in the lives of young patients. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to collaborate in a supportive setting, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Holds acceptable primary medical qualification.
• Experience in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry as a Specialty Doctor.

Responsibilities

• Provide face-to-face care to children and young people in a busy department.
• Manage children prescribed medication for mental health difficulties.

Skills

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Assessment and Management of ADHD

Multi-disciplinary Team Collaboration

Creative Teamwork

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

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General Practitioner with Special Interest in CAMHS (Mental Health)

MQ00

Main area: General Practice

Grade: MQ00

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term with option to extend)

Hours: Part time - 2 sessions per week (Monday to Friday)

Job ref: 349-MCH-6937755*

Site: Multiple sites across Trafford and/or Manchester Town, Sale M33 7ZF or North Manchester M40 5BP

Salary: £73,113 - £110,330 Dependant on Experience

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

All our CAMHS teams have a wide mix of skills and experience in their multi-disciplinary teams and enthusiastic, supportive colleagues, in a highly skilled and cohesive environment. The GP with Special Interest and Consultants across CAMHS meet regularly for academic, professional, and social support with a well-respected training scheme for trainees placed across the services. You will be expected to take part in frontline work, focusing on ADHD and Neurodevelopmental conditions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder(s) will operate from a choice of CAMHS Departments based in Sale and/or across Manchester's community/outpatient centres.

This role will involve providing face-to-face care to children and young people within a busy department, receiving over 2000 referrals per annum, supported by an experienced multi-disciplinary team from a CAMHS team that has an OUTSTANDING rating in two consecutive unannounced CQC inspections.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which outlines how MFT continues to make healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role will involve providing face-to-face care to children and young people within a busy department, including:

• Primarily the assessment and management of children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties, including delivering ADHD medication clinics.
• Management of children and young people prescribed medication for the treatment of mental health difficulties.
• Providing child and adolescent psychiatric care and advice as required and in accordance with the service specification.
• Offering child and adolescent psychiatric opinion and advice as appropriate within the CAMHS team.
• Case liaison with other agencies as appropriate.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Holds acceptable primary medical qualification.
• Experience of working in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry as a Specialty Doctor.

Knowledge & Experience

• Ability to work clearly and effectively across organisational boundaries.
• Evidence of leading the development of services elsewhere.

Experience

• Ability to work creatively with teams around complex and challenging client groups.
• Experience of involvement in creative teamwork with complex clients, or those in emergency/mental health crisis.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: David Ochando

Job title: Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Email address: [e-mail]

Telephone number: 0161 701 0447