Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (BaNES)

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site

Job description

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire?

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.

We have two consultant opportunities in our Bath and North East Somerset CAMHS team: 1 full time and 1x 0.6. As a Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within an active and supportive multidisciplinary team (the B& NES Getting More Help Team). With the team manager and senior members of the team, the post holder will be expected to develop an active leadership role. The Consultant will have medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents, and families on the caseload of the Consultant and other medical staff under his/her supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working, the Consultant will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but is not medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. Collaboration and liaison with other members of the team is an essential part of the management of the assessment and treatment of referrals to the clinic.

The team operates in close liaison with the Getting Help team, which operates as a single point of access for all CAMHS services and screens referrals from GPs, Paediatricians, and Education and Social Services. The Getting Help team offers therapeutic input to less complex cases. Emergency referrals can be made by agencies directly to the Getting More Help Team.

About us

This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service. We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS. Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project. We work closely with our BSW ICB, Local Authorities, NHS providers, and Third Sector Partners to transform services for young people up to 25.

At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
4. Competitive pension scheme
5. Lease car scheme
6. Cycle to work scheme
7. Employee Assistance Programme
8. Mental Health First Aiders
9. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
10. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
11. Up to 35 days of annual leave per year
12. £15,000 recruitment bonus and up to £8,000 relocation support

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Provide clinical leadership and medical input to the team.
2. The postholder will take responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by them.
3. With other consultants in the team, have responsibility for the clinical governance of the team as clinical leads for the team.
4. The team will assess all emergencies referred to it within a day of referral. When necessary, this will include responsibility for Mental Health Act assessment of patients. The Consultant is not expected to make initial assessments, except in certain circumstances. The Consultant psychiatrists will work in partnership within the multidisciplinary team for the clinical management of patients. This will include risk assessment, the assessment of the needs of carers, and the development of services to meet the needs of patients and families for whom the team is responsible. Consultant Psychiatrists within the Melksham team (Community, TEDS, and LD CAMHS), have a robust system to arrange cross-cover to ensure there is always a psychiatrist available to the service.
5. There is a weekly clinical team meeting which the Consultant is expected to join and be part of the clinical MDT.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
• Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric specialty OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.

Desirable

• Higher degree/diploma or equivalent in relevant field of medical or psychological studies
• Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in an approved training post for a minimum of three years and/or previous consultant experience
• Sub-specialty or other specialist clinical training relevant to post.
• Membership or Fellowship of The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Experience

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working.
• Experience of effective multiagency partnership at work.
• Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with emerging personality disorders, conduct, and behavioral problems.
• Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services
• Ability to undertake the full range of Consultant responsibilities.

Desirable

• Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group.
• Development of multidisciplinary teamwork, close collaboration with Primary Care services, and working with a multiagency approach, including education, health, and social care.
• High training placement in Adolescent Psychiatry

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions. The ability to assume a medical leadership role within the team and to work closely with senior managers to implement trust objectives.
• Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively. Commitment to multiagency partnership.
• Ability to promote effective team working.
• The ability to prioritise workload and respond in a timely, flexible manner to requests for consultation from colleagues.
• The ability to use electronic records and diaries.
• Clinical audit.
• Must have excellent skills in communication with patients, relatives/carers, colleagues, and staff of other organisations.
• Experience of Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
• Must be skilled in professional collaboration.
• Experience in supervising basic level psychiatric trainees.
• Must have an interest in and commitment to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Honesty and integrity.
• High energy levels.
• Flexibility to cope with service change and demanding clinical challenges.

Desirable

• Relevant experience of administrative and management role or senior medical staff.
• Teaching qualification.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Full GMC registration
• Meet specifications set out in the GMC
• Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites

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