Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Harrow Child and Adolescent Mental Health service

Fixed Term: 12 Months

Flexible but up to 10 Programmed Activities

We are currently looking for a 10 PA Specialty Doctor/Psychiatrist to work within Harrow CAMHS (CNWL). This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated doctor with creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultants and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, children's services and allied health professionals.

You will be working with consultants in a team with two higher trainees (St Mary's higher training scheme in child psychiatry), a core trainee and another specialty doctor.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be based within the neurodevelopmental team and expected to provide medical input into all CAMHS sub-teams as needed including conducting initial assessments, psychiatric assessments, risk assessments and delivering treatments including the initiation and monitoring of pharmacological treatments.

The postholder will be expected to support the MDT with regard to comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management planning, guided by the CAMHS care pathways and clinical model.

Job responsibilities

1. To undertake psychiatric assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.
2. To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.
3. To provide treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist.
4. To attend service wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion.
5. To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases and opportunities for audit.
6. To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.
7. To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
8. To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.
9. To provide clinical care for other patients if their allocated doctor/case manager is unavailable.
10. To gain experience of some psychological treatments.
11. To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.
12. To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Primary Medical Degree
• GMC Licence to Practice
• Section 12(2) Mental Health Act approval and AC Approval

Experience, Skills and Abilities

• Completed at least 4 years full time post graduate training (or its equivalent on a part time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term trainee or have equivalent experience and competencies.
• At least one year of experience in CAMHS neurodevelopmental work including ASD and ADHD assessments and management.
• Good knowledge of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Experience in psychopharmacology as applicable to CAMHS.
• Experience of Mental Health Act as applicable to CAMHS.
• Experience in a variety of therapies.
• 3-DI or ADI trained.

Personal Skills & Qualities

• Excellent communication and empathic skills with a range of different people.
• Demonstrable leadership skills.
• Experience of team working.
• Sound organisational skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Experience of MDT work.
• Highly motivated and able to finish tasks on time.

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.

Salary: £59,175 to £95,400 a year plus London weighting of £2,162 per annum pro rata.