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Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Job details
Posting date: 18 December 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £59,175 - £95,400 plus London weighting of £2162 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 January 2025
Location: South Harrow, HA2 8EQ
Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6884837/333-G-CA-SA0006

Summary

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.


Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Harrow Child and Adolescent Mental Health service

Fixed Term: 12 Months

Flexible but up to 10 Programmed Activities



We are currently looking for a 10 PA Specialty Doctor/Psychiatrist to work within Harrow CAMHS (CNWL). This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated doctor with creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultants and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, childrens services and allied health professionals.

You will be working consultants in a team with two higher trainees (St Mary's higher training scheme in child psychiatry), a core trainee andanother specialty doctor.



Further Information & Arrangements to visit

Dr Julia Gledhill (Lead Psychiatrist)

E: ashtreeclinic@nhs.net T: 020 8869 4500



The postholder will be based within the neurodevelopmental team and expected to provide medical input into all CAMHS sub-teams as needed including conducting initial assessments, psychiatric assessments, risk assessments and delivering treatments including the initiation and monitoring of pharmacological treatments.

The postholder will be expected to support the MDT with regard to comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management planning, guided by the CAMHS care pathways and clinical model.

CNWL is a nationally leading NHS Foundation Trust providing Mental Health, Community Health and Child Health Services across London and the South East of England.

Over the last few years our catchment area has grown significantly, making the Trust’s population more diverse than ever. The area spans the communities of London, Milton Keynes and wider geographical areas of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. There are areas of great affluence as well as deprivation, and there are over 100 first-languages spoken in these communities.

We were authorised as a Foundation Trust on 1 May 2007.

The Trust is organised in to three Divisions: Jameson, Goodall and Diggory. Goodall Division is responsible for the delivery of Mental Health and community Learning Disability services in Hillingdon, as well as all CNWL’s specialist rehabilitation provision and CAMHS provision in NW London. We also deliver community physical health services in a number of boroughs in NW London, including Hillingdon Harrow, Ealing and neighbouring System of North Central London.

Our staff play a fundamental role in our delivery of excellent outcomes and excellent patient experience, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

www.cnwl.nhs.uk



To undertake psychiatric assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.

To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.

To provide treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist.

To attend service wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion.

To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases and opportunities for audit.

To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.

To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.

To participate in continuing professional development.

To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.

To provide clinical care for other patients if their allocated doctor/case manager is unavailable.

To gain experience of some psychological treatments.

To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.

To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.


This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025

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