Consultant Psychiatrist: CAMHS (BaNES)

Oxford Health; Keynsham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team and providing high-quality care in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Candidates should have significant experience in child psychiatry, strong leadership skills, and eligibility for GMC registration. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities are crucial as the position requires working closely with various team members and external agencies. A competitive range of benefits is offered including opportunities for career progression and supportive work culture.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

NHS Discounts

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

33 days annual leave on pro-rata basis

Qualifications

• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval.
• Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for minimum of three years.
• Experience in managing children with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents.
• Lead multidisciplinary team efforts to improve care.
• Collaborate with other services for optimal patient management.

Skills

Team collaboration

Child Psychiatry expertise

Communication skills

Leadership

Flexibility

Education

Higher degree/diploma in medical or psychological studies

Membership of The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Job description

Permanent: Full time and part time applications accepted

About the Role

Job overview

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 Wiltshire?

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 BaNES Getting More Help Team). With the team manager and senior members of the team, you will be expected to develop an active leadership role.

You 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, you will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but you are 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 service 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 byagencies direct to the Getting More Help Team.

Working for our organisation

It 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.

If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people’s mental health and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients.

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

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
• 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed overview of the vacancy

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
• Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric speciality; OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.
• Higher degree/diploma or equivalent in relevant field of medical or psychological studies
• Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 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

• 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 behavioural problems.
• Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services
• Ability to undertake full range of Consultant responsibilities.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Flexibility to cope with service change and demanding clinical challenges.
• Relevant experience of administrative and management role or senior medical staff.
• Teaching qualification.

Other Requirements

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

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