Consultant Psychiatrist CAMH (Central)

NHS Jobs; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is recruiting a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership within CAMHS, delivering high quality assessments, formulations and safe psychiatric management across community and hospital settings.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, contribute to safeguarding, risk planning, and development of care pathways, while supporting transformation, governance and training across the Trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical leadership to the CAMHS services, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including follow up.
• Lead on interface with partner services and in-patient teams, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning and care pathways.
• Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues and manage safeguarding alongside local and national best practices.
• Deliver on-call duties and supervise doctors in training, including 24/7 crisis service support.
• Oversee system flow, wait lists, capacity and return to community for inpatient-admitted youths.
• Contribute to governance, quality improvement, audits and standard maintenance across the Trust.
• Undertake clinical and educational supervision for resident doctors and CPD activities.
• Take leadership in CAMHS Transformation to provide integrated, needs-led services across the trust.

Job description

Main Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

1. Clinical leadership
   • Provide senior medical leadership to the North and/or Central CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.
   • Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.
   • Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.
   • Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
   • There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.
2. Direct clinical care
   • Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway including.
   • Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.
   • Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.
   • Participate in the CYPF directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at additional 1PA. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.
3. System flow
   • Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.
   • Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission.
4. Clinical Governance and Quality
   • Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.
   • Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust wide.
   • Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.
   • Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trusts clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.
   • Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
5. Workforce, Training & Supervision
   • Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.
   • Upskill and support junior colleagues and teams CPD programme for other disciplines.
   • Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.
   • Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.
6. Strategic Development
   • Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs led service to young people across the trust

Training & Development

To participate in regular peer supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy.

To participate in the Trusts annual appraisal and revalidation process.

To attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so.

Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities.

Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional 1.0 PA (or pro-rata) is allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holders professional development and the Trusts ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services.

There is a termly CPD event.

There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.

Quality & Patient Safety

Protection of Children & Vulnerable Adults

To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Implementation of NICE guidance and other statutory / best practice guidelines. (if appropriate)

Infection Control

To be responsible for the prevention and control of infection.

Incident reporting

To report any incidents of harm or near miss in line with the Trusts incident reporting policy ensuring appropriate actions are taken to reduce the risk of reoccurrence.

To contribute to the identification, management and reduction of risk in the area of responsibility.

To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience.

To ensure monitoring of quality and compliance with standards is demonstrable within the service on an ongoing basis.

To be aware of the responsibility of all employees to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients/ clients, visitors and staff.

General

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these.

To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.

To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.

To comply at all times with the Trusts Information Governance related policies.

Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act.

All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.

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