Specialty Doctor CAMHS

NHS; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a substantive specialty doctor to join their CAMHS team in Gloucester. The role includes direct patient consultations, home visits, and participation in multi-disciplinary meetings, requiring an MBBS and significant postgraduate psychiatric experience. This position offers the chance to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people in the region.

Qualifications

• Significant postgraduate experience required.
• Sufficient experience in psychiatry is necessary.
• Postgraduate experience in relevant specialty is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conduct home visits and telephone consultations with service users.
• Provide psychiatric input to referred children and young people.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and reviews.

Skills

Psychiatry experience

Patient consultation

Team collaboration

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRPSCYCH

Job description

An exciting opportunity has come about for a substantive specialty doctor to join the CAMHS team on a full-time basis. This funding has come from a previous consultant post within the team.

Gloucestershire CYPS is looking for a permanent member to join the team at Evergreen house, Cheltenham. You will be joining a diverse multidisciplinary team. You will be expected to achieve direct patient contacts representing a mixture of new and review appointments including emergency assessments under supervision from your clinical consultant.

CAMHS is a part of a large Children and Young People directorate in the Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust, including Health Visiting, SALT, Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and school nursing.

Main duties of the job

The role entails both home visits and telephone consultations with service users as appropriate and to provide psychiatric input to children and young people referred to CYPS registered with GPs in Gloucestershire.

Participation with multi-disciplinary team meetings and reviews is expected.

Participation in clinical duties as appropriate and support future clinical developments.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisation's priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential:

• MBBS OR EQUIVALENT

Desirable:

• MRPSCYCH

Experience Essential:

• Significant post graduate experience
• Sufficient psychiatry experience

Desirable:

• Postgraduate experience in relevant speciality

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.