Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Brent CAMHS
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £99,532.00 to £131,964.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £99532.00 - £131964.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Wembley, HA9 6JE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-24-1091 |
Summary
To work along with other MDT colleagues to develop the Enhanced Treatment sub-team, offer consultation, work with colleagues from local authority and education, assess and manage children, young people and their families as appropriate. Provision of a generic service for non-urgent presentations of children and adolescents requiring psychiatric assessments and treatment, including direct clinical involvement and supervision and oversight of cases held by fellow clinicians. Provision of a service to acutely mentally ill children and adolescents when presenting in crisis, including a comprehensive assessment and evidence based interventions as required across a range of theoretical models and treatments. Consultation to other members of the multidisciplinary team regarding the management of urgent assessments and risk. The post holder will be expected to assess about 15-20 new assessments per year, and offer 10- 12 face to face contacts per week. The caseload expected of the post holder is about 30-40 cases in the CAMHS Enhanced treatment team, most of whom will be prescribed medication and present with high clinical complexity. They will be expected to consult other member of the team and join them for clinical reviews as appropriate. Brent EIS caseload includes around 15 young people aged 14-18 years old. Each young person has a care coordinator. The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership to the care coordinators and psychiatric reviews for this group, and contribute CAMHS perspective into the day- to-day running of the service. Accessing Tier 4 provision as clinically appropriate and reviewing the management and care of the young person during inpatient admission to ensure the most effective use of resources Participation in the development of new models of service to improve delivery and outcome, taking into account the views of commissioners and evidence of best practice. Provision of clinical leadership in the Brent Enhanced Treatment team Participation in development of clinical protocols as required. Contribution to the Brent CAMHS senior management group Contribution to leadership activities within the CAMHS- ED service line. Participation in training and supervision of junior doctors, medical students, and other members of the multidisciplinary Team as required. There is one CT and one FY2 doctor attached to Brent CAMHS who are currently supervised by the other consultants. The post holder will be encouraged to become a clinical supervisor in the first instance and then an educational supervisor for CT1 or FY2 doctors attached to the team. CNWL offers support and training for these activities. The post holder will be expected to develop training opportunities for junior doctors to encourage recruitment into this area of psychiatry. The post holder will be invited to contribute to the teaching of undergraduate medical students at Imperial College and can apply for honorary clinical lecturer status. Furthermore, there are opportunities to participate in teaching and training activities with CT1-3 (the MRCPsych course) and SpRs doctors, local GPS, social workers, health visitors and other partners in the community.