Consultant Psychiatrist Bexley CAMHS - Blossom Team | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 pa pro rata plus On-Call supplement and London Weighting pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | Erith, Kent, DA8 3EE |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7186570/277-7186570-SW |
Summary
This post is based in Blossom Team. The team sees young people and families whose needs fall in to the getting help and getting more help categories. There are no diagnostic boundaries for this team so you will be seeing young people with neurodiversity and intellectual disability. However, specialism and special interests will still be considered in allocations and caseloads. The psychiatry waiting lists are shared between Blossom and Cedar and Willow teams.
The team has a multidisciplinary focus and the post holder will be expected to take a senior role in the MDT.
Care Coordination/ Care Coordinator (CCO)
The post holder will not be expected to Care Coordinate and when there are significant care coordination tasks a care coordinator will be allocated but not all young people under psychiatry will have a CCO as standard.
Bexley Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services (Bexley CAMHS) provides multi-disciplinary specialist consultation, assessment and treatment for individuals up to 18 years of age experiencing mental health difficulties. The service forms part of a planned and integrated whole system approach to care that is delivered in conjunction with in-patient, crisis and specialist services and wider partnerships aligned with the THRIVE approach to supporting children and young peoples’ (CYP) mental health.
At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.
“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people’s lives.”
Ify Okocha
Chief Executive
Bexley CAMHS Aims
• To enable children and young people to reach their potential and to live fulfilling lives.
• To provide high quality, evidence-based services to children, young people and their families or carers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• To provide mental health services with a child and family centred approach in which each child is seen as an individual in the context of their familial, ethnic, cultural, social and educational systems.
• To work in partnership with a broad range of professionals and organisations working with children from social care, health and the voluntary and private sector.
• To provide short, medium and long term interventions based on levels of complexity and chronicity utilising a wide range of evidence-based treatments.
• To provide services flexibly in order that they are accessible to all children and young people who need them e.g., by offering clinical sessions in various settings and localities across the borough.
• To provide services in a way that minimises the potential stigma for young people and their families/carers in accessing mental health care.
• To provide services where safeguarding children is paramount i.e., identifying safeguarding risks of various kinds and taking appropriate action.
• To ensure mental health needs and risks are assessed and identified. That service users requiring a service are managed within the Care Programme Approach and an appropriate treatment/care plan and risk management plan agreed. The plan is developed in partnership with and will reflect the views of service users.
• To provide services that are accessible to all sections of the local community and work towards overcoming barriers for young people from black and ethnic minorities and other marginalised and vulnerable groups in accessing CAMHS, including looked after and adopted children.
• To provide a safe and smooth transition to adult services for young people requiring ongoing mental health interventions and care.
• To arrange appropriate access to inpatient care as required, to maintain a relationship with the young person, work collaboratively with the inpatient provider and work proactively to facilitate safe discharge to the community.
• To systematically obtain service user feedback and where possible to involve service users in service development.
• To work with young people, families and carers to ensure they are given the information and guidance they need throughout their care.
• To work towards achieving the priorities as set out in Bexley Children and Young Peoples Plan.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025
The team has a multidisciplinary focus and the post holder will be expected to take a senior role in the MDT.
Care Coordination/ Care Coordinator (CCO)
The post holder will not be expected to Care Coordinate and when there are significant care coordination tasks a care coordinator will be allocated but not all young people under psychiatry will have a CCO as standard.
Bexley Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services (Bexley CAMHS) provides multi-disciplinary specialist consultation, assessment and treatment for individuals up to 18 years of age experiencing mental health difficulties. The service forms part of a planned and integrated whole system approach to care that is delivered in conjunction with in-patient, crisis and specialist services and wider partnerships aligned with the THRIVE approach to supporting children and young peoples’ (CYP) mental health.
At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.
“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people’s lives.”
Ify Okocha
Chief Executive
Bexley CAMHS Aims
• To enable children and young people to reach their potential and to live fulfilling lives.
• To provide high quality, evidence-based services to children, young people and their families or carers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• To provide mental health services with a child and family centred approach in which each child is seen as an individual in the context of their familial, ethnic, cultural, social and educational systems.
• To work in partnership with a broad range of professionals and organisations working with children from social care, health and the voluntary and private sector.
• To provide short, medium and long term interventions based on levels of complexity and chronicity utilising a wide range of evidence-based treatments.
• To provide services flexibly in order that they are accessible to all children and young people who need them e.g., by offering clinical sessions in various settings and localities across the borough.
• To provide services in a way that minimises the potential stigma for young people and their families/carers in accessing mental health care.
• To provide services where safeguarding children is paramount i.e., identifying safeguarding risks of various kinds and taking appropriate action.
• To ensure mental health needs and risks are assessed and identified. That service users requiring a service are managed within the Care Programme Approach and an appropriate treatment/care plan and risk management plan agreed. The plan is developed in partnership with and will reflect the views of service users.
• To provide services that are accessible to all sections of the local community and work towards overcoming barriers for young people from black and ethnic minorities and other marginalised and vulnerable groups in accessing CAMHS, including looked after and adopted children.
• To provide a safe and smooth transition to adult services for young people requiring ongoing mental health interventions and care.
• To arrange appropriate access to inpatient care as required, to maintain a relationship with the young person, work collaboratively with the inpatient provider and work proactively to facilitate safe discharge to the community.
• To systematically obtain service user feedback and where possible to involve service users in service development.
• To work with young people, families and carers to ensure they are given the information and guidance they need throughout their care.
• To work towards achieving the priorities as set out in Bexley Children and Young Peoples Plan.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025
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