Specialty Doctor - EB1 South Beds Mental Health Team

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor for the Emotional and Behavioural Mental Health Team in Dunstable. The role involves assessing and treating young people with mental health difficulties, contributing to a supportive multidisciplinary environment. Candidates must be GMC registered and have experience in child and adolescent mental health. This position requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and adolescents.
• Experience of working with people with serious and enduring mental illness.
• Experience of auditing practices and services.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a daytime emergency rota.
• Provide generic CAMHS assessments and interventions.
• Account for professional practice through appraisal and audit.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Develop effective working relationships

Function autonomously as well as being a team player

Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients' needs

Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management

Skills in various therapeutic interventions

Education

MB.BS, MBChB or equivalent

Full Registration with the GMC

Job description

Specialty Doctor - EB1 South Beds Mental Health Team

This is a community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural Mental Health Team (EB1) offering assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. EB1 is a cohesive community based multi-disciplinary team within South Bedfordshire CAMHS, which provides assessment and treatment of young people presenting moderate to severe mental health difficulties. This includes young people who present with risk self-harm. The EB1 is composed of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (one full time consultant), Systemic Family Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and Mental Health Nursing. The team model includes joint working between Psychiatry and allocated care-coordinator to provide young people and their families with developmentally informed evidence-based treatments. There is a high level of support within the team and regular supervision with the Consultant Psychiatrist.

Main duties of the job

As part of the EB1 team, the post-holder will offer generic CAMHS assessments and interventions. The post-holder will contribute to a day time emergency rota covering presentations of young people in crisis or who have deliberately self-harmed at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and providing urgent psychiatric reviews (with support of consultant).

The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

Key Relationships

• Young people and their families
• EBT Consultants and Clinical Team Leads
• EBT Clinical Colleagues
• EBT Administrator
• Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
• Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, Tier 4 inpatient services, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
• Other SAS Doctors within the trust
• Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people\'s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

This job description is intended as a guide to the main duties of the post and is not intended to be a prescriptive document. Duties and base of work may change to meet the needs of the service or because of the introduction of new technology. This job description may be reviewed from time to time and changed, after consultation with the postholder.

Please see attached full job description

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• MB.BS, MBChB or equivalent
• Full Registration with the GMC

Experience

• Experience of working with children and adolescents
• Working with people with serious and enduring mental illness
• Auditing practices and services
• Experience of working in a multicultural setting

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent communication skills, verbal, non verbal and written
• Develop effective working relationships
• Function autonomously as well as being a team player
• Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients\' needs
• Apply research and theory to practice
• Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management
• Mental Health Legislation
• Experience of pharmacological treatments
• Healthcare Governance

• Skills and a range of therapeutic interventions and psycho-social treatment options

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.