Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holders responsibilities will include support of junior medical staff and nurse prescribers/Practitioners, for the management of community patients in the North Stoke catchments area. At present, the age range of referrals is up to age 18 years).

Clinical

• Duties will include being on the on-call rota and therefore post holder needs to be Section 12(2) approved.
• Regular face to face review of patients
• Meetings with carers and schools as required
• Ensuring effective holistic multidisciplinary assessment and care planning with service users, carers, schools, social services and other agencies and the multidisciplinary team
• Ensuring the physical health needs of patients are met
• Regular participation in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Supervision of Junior Medical Staff, including review of their outpatient work and clinic letters as appropriate
• Consultation with Nurse Practitioners/prescribers and Senior multi-disciplinary staff
• Liaison with other teams where appropriate
• Consultation with the Urgent Care centre team and Home Treatment team
• Regular contact and close liaison with local primary care services
• Planning of all treatment needs including prescription of medication
• Referral to other providers for assessment and provision of services as required (e.g. social services)
• Liaison and good working relationship with other agencies

• Involvement in care planning diagnosis and treatment that is up to date and evidence based,

General duties

• The post holder will be expected to manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Trusts personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences and workplace based assessments.
• The post holder will also ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operates within the Doctors and the European Working Time directive. Associated admin duties will be expected to be performed as part of the care of patients.
• As part of the role the post holder will record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively within the Trusts Electronic patient record system.

Person Specification

CCT or equivalent

Essential

• Medical qualification
• CCT in Child & Adolescent psychiatry or equivalent
• Section 12 approval or eligible to be approved

Desirable

• Specialist training in psychotherapy
• Postgraduate training in Education

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

North Stoke CAMHS

Roundwell Street, Tunstall

Stoke on Trent

ST6 5JJ

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)