Locum Consultant CAMHS Brent and Harrow Urgent Care Team
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, HA1 3UJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-0954 |
Summary
Brent and Harrow Urgent Care team sees on average 30-35 new patients per month offering urgent assessments, 7 day follow-ups and ward reviews, if needed. The UCOS within Brent and Harrow UCT holds 0-15 cases at any one time. The appointee will provide daily psychiatric input to the Brent and Harrow Urgent Care Team by offering consultation and psychiatric input To support junior doctors in conducting MHA assessments at the hospital and provide MHA assessments if required To contribute to multiagency meetings for young people presenting at the hospital To contribute to the provider collaborative escalation meetings for young people waiting for psychiatric inpatient beds The appointee will take a consultant lead role in Brent and Harrow urgent care team To provide consultation and psychiatric input to the weekly clinical review meeting for UCT To provide leadership and psychiatric input to the weekly UCOS Clinical Cases discussion meeting. To provide continuity of consultant input for young people admitted to paediatric and medical wards and, if required, be the responsible clinician (RC) To provide psychiatric assessments when required and support the Urgent Care Team with emergency work at Northwick Park Hospital and 7 day follow ups. To contribute to the monthly senior management meetings for the local CAMHS as well as the crisis pathway. To take a lead role, together with the urgent care team lead, in developing joint crisis pathways and protocols with the acute hospital To attend interface meetings with the emergency department and contribute to professional meetings for young people at the hospital To provide clinical supervision to psychiatry trainees and speciality doctors contributing to the work of the UCT on a case by case basis as needed. To lead on the development of interface working between UCT and other CAMHS sub-teams as well as ACTS (Adolescent Community Treatment Service) To participate in case-based discussions with other CAMHS consultants and junior medical colleagues within the Harrow CAMHS doctors meeting which takes place twice a month. To offer teaching to colleagues at the acute hospital, CAMHS colleagues and trainees and medical students To work together and support the team lead in providing activity reports and contribute to providing presentation of the work to senior management meetings and commissioners. This may include the North West London Provider Collaborative and the CNWL CAMHS Central Care Quality and Performance Management Group (CQPMG).