COMMUNITY CAMHS SPECIALTY DOCTOR (CANTERBURY)

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Main area Mental Health Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 5 sessions per week Job ref 395-MED147-25

Site George Turle House Town Canterbury Salary £59,175 - £95,400 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/05/:59

Joining means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview COMMUNITY CAMHS SPECIALTY DOCTOR

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Optional - worked in PAs

Location

Qualifications needed:

Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders

At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

Main duties of the job To be successful in your application, you will need:

To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT's values,

To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health care,

Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,

To be a team player

Relocation expenses

Career Development and training

Just & Compassionate Culture

Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellness initiatives

11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

Flexible working and agile working

Cycle to work scheme

Working for our organisation Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

We are currently recruiting for a Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor position in the Canterbury CAMHS Community Team, based at George Turle House, 54 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8JY .

This is an established, substantive, part-time post - 5 PA with 3.5 DCC and 1.5 SPA. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this position as soon as possible.

You will join 2wte CAMHS Consultants within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will be expected to:

Workaspartofmultidisciplinaryteamsprovidingcaretochildrenandyoungpeople with mental health needs, across Canterbury.

Provideseniormedicalsupporttotheteam,anddirectinputonclinical cases.

Provideguidanceandsupervisiontothe team.

Work directly with children and young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals.

Work alongside the two full-time CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists within the service.

Developlinksalreadyestablishedwiththelocalacutetrusts'A&Edepartments and inpatient wards.

Beresponsibleforpatientsallocatedtothemandwillassess,manage,plan,and deliver care.

Offerclinicalsupervisionandteachingtothecoretraineeon placement.

Supportyourpeersandtheteammanagerandbeaneffectiveteammember whilst working on their own initiative.

Supervisejuniorcolleaguesandliaisewithotherhealthandsocialprofessionals and agencies.

Person specification GMC

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Section 12

• Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

Knowledge

• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders, and in specific eating disorders

Experience

• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on or email .

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Employer certification / accreditation badges You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services.

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