Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Community CAMHS East

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Community CAMHS East

Are you looking to develop your career within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry? Perhaps, you're seeking a new challenge?

We are looking for a Consultant or a CAMHS doctor in training within 6 months of their Certificate of Completion of Training date, to join our Somerset CAMHS Consultant group. You will be working 8 sessions in our county wide Community Eating Disorders Service.

Flexible working is available and working hours can be discussed.

We are proud to say that Somerset Community CAMHS services have been accredited a 'CQC - OUTSTANDING' service. Somerset Foundation Trust is the first trust to have Integrated Acute Medical and Surgical Specialities, Mental Health, Community and Primary care services.

Our values are outstanding care, listening & leading and working together.

Main duties of the job

You will be providing medical leadership and working alongside supportive multi-disciplinary teams in the community and acute hospital setting, providing psychiatry input for children and young people who are experiencing complex mental health presentations.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!

Job responsibilities

• Accountability for the direct delivery of clinical care, by providing visible, accessible, authoritative and professional clinical leadership to the CAMHS community team in the East of the county, ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
• Provide specific professional and expert clinical opinion and advice on a range of problems, including those young people with complex needs to professionals working within the CAMHS sector.
• With other senior members of the community team, responsible for ensuring referrals are risk assessed and allocated to the most appropriate clinician in a timely manner.
• With other senior members of the community team, be responsible for ensuring there is effective communication both within the team and with referring and receiving teams, including the RAFT team.
• To promote effective multi-disciplinary team working.
• To work co-operatively with colleagues and to respect and value their contribution to patient care.
• To maintain close relationships with GPs / primary care.
• To work closely with colleagues in Education and Children's Social Care as well as Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS), Early Intervention in Psychosis (STEP), Talking Therapies and Adult Mental Health services.
• To be available to patients, families and carers, to provide information and support.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MBBS, MBChB or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration
• Section 12 MHA approval
• Evidence of AC/RC approval or in process of application
• Included on specialist register for child psychiatry

Knowledge and Experience

• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Skills and Abilities

• Compassionate - Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with young people, carers and allied professionals remaining sensitive and empathetic.
• Sufficient leadership, organisational, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant or Associate Specialist in a health community.
• Excellent oral & written communication skills - including active listening skills, competency in English to a level that enables the role to be undertaken effectively and to assure the delivery of safe care to patients, the ability to understand and summarise a discussion, ask appropriate questions, provide constructive challenge and give effective feedback.
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.

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.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year pro rata and dependant on experience.