Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - Locum
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour.We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Are you a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with a passion for working with children and young people? Are you interested in working in a dynamic and innovative CAMHS team?
This is an exciting opportunity for a child and adolescent psychiatrist to join one of our well-established, diverse and supportive CAMHS teams.
Fostering and Adoption Kinship Care Team (FAKCT) is a CAMHS service supporting children and young people’s emotional wellbeing needs with evidence-based therapeutic interventions. FAKCT comprises a varied multi-disciplinary team, staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including educational psychologists, child psychotherapists, social workers, systemic family therapists, refugee care specialists and trainees from those disciplines.
FAKCT is part of the Child Complex Service within the Complex Mental Health Service Line. We work closely with partners from referring local authorities, schools and voluntary agencies.
Candidates are requested to use the section "Supporting Information" on the application form to set out their reasons for applying and their suitability, referring to the person specification, for this post.
Main duties of the job- To provide the child and adolescent psychiatry contribution to the multidisciplinary team including consultation and support to the team.
- Attend weekly team meetings and contribute to the Assessment Clinics.
- Provide psychiatric assessments including assessment of risk to self and others as part of the integrated MDT team, in a range of settings as required.
- Take part in Mental Health Act assessments if required on cases on caseload during working hours.
- Provide consultation to other members of the team regarding cases held by the team, and psychiatric input to these cases.
- To hold a caseload of cases generally of high complexity, usually jointly with other team members, and provide psychopharmacology if appropriate.
- To provide high quality psychiatric reports, which are accessible to a multiagency audience, to assist other agencies to plan their service in light of a child or young person’s mental health difficulties.
- To contribute to data collection, audit, QI and outcome monitoring.
- Provide medical and non-medical interventions alongside team colleagues, join multidisciplinary reviews, and develop clear co-created care plans.
- To be an active member of the senior staff group within the team and undertake leadership and service development duties as required.
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (T&P) are the main provider of CAMHS Services to Camden and provide a range of regional and national mental health services. The Education and Training Directorate provide training for clinicians, social workers, nurses, teachers and many other professionals.The clinician-tutor model and multidisciplinary approach ensures courses are relevant, transformative and empowering.
There are 3 service Lines within the Trust: Camden, Child and Family Unit and Adult Services. The FAKCT team is under the Child and Family Unit.
Overall, there are 30 multidisciplinary teams in the Trust providing services from pre-birth up to the age of 25. There are 30 Medical Consultants in the Trust. The services cover generic whole area child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) through to highly specialist local and national services.The majority of the teams are multidisciplinary, with expertise in a range of treatment modalities including psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, systemic psychotherapy, as well as a wide range of specialist interventions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Clinical Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria- Excellent knowledge in child and adolescent psychiatry
- MRCPsych
- Eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of getting CCT
- Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experience relevant to post withing NHS or comparable service.
Experience
Essential criteria- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Experience in the psychiatric assessment and treatment of children and young people with Neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD and ASC.
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- Able to deliver postgraduate teaching and training
- Wide excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge. SL, AAC, Ref Wide experience and skill of therapeutic work with children and young people and their families.
- Evidence of working flexibly with team members and with young people providing appointments in a range of community settings.
- Section 12 approved or eligible to apply
- Able to plan and deliver postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
Academic Skill & Lielong Learning
Essential criteria- Ability to work in and provide clinical leadership
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation. Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation. Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
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PLEASE NOTE:- The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
- Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
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