Job summary
Consultant Psychiatrist for Children
and Adolescents - 6 PAs
We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our innovative and experienced community specialist CAMHS team in East Berkshire.
Due to vacancies created by new service developments and staff changing roles we have a total of 6PAs available within our East Specialist Community team (based at Slough).
The role is mainly based at Fir Tree House, based in the ground of Upton Hospital. There will also be some travel required to other SCT sites for meetings and an element of home working.
The Consultant should be oriented towards a team approach and work closely with other CAMHS teams such as CAMHS Common Point of Entry (CPE), CAMHS Rapid Response (Crisis team), CAMHS Phoenix (Tier 4 alternative to admission ), parents/carers, other CYPF colleagues including Community Paediatricians, the Children & Young Peoples Integrated Therapy Team, Health Visitors, School Nurses, General Practitioners, Childrens Social Care and other local authority services, schools and VCSE partners as well as other clinical support staff in the Trust and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant Role will include the following Clinical Duties
- Contribution to the assessment of child and young people presenting to the team.
- Treatment of children and young people with mental health disorders, tailored to their individual needs, in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- It is expected that the Consultants caseload will vary depending on the complexity of clinical presentations of the young people seen. This will be agreed in regular caseload supervision with the line manager.
Consultation and collaboration with other agencies in the assessment and treatment of complex presentations.
- Meetings and consultations with other members of the team and external agencies as required.
- Planning and co-ordinating mental health services for children, young people and families, where appropriate.
- Preparation of professional assessments and reports on those children or young people known to the post holder.
- Participate in medical audit and evaluation.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare
CAMHS runs a pathway model with locality-based specialist community teams
working alongside county-wide specialist care pathway teams including neurodevelopmental
services, EIP, CAMHS Eating disorders, a Rapid Response team.
The Consultant will be based within the East Business Unit
which covers the localities of Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead and Bracknell. Each
unitary authority brings its own population needs and demographics. The
consultant will be primarily responsible for the provision of psychiatric
services to children and young people living in the Slough, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead locality, but will
work collaboratively with the other Consultants within the East Business Unit,
to ensure that psychiatric services are provided relative to demand across the
unit.
The Multi-Disciplinary Team
provides an outpatient Tier 3 Specialist CAMH service to children and
adolescents up to their eighteenth birthday in the assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment of mental health disorders. We
have a good working relationship with the AMHT and there is a trust-wide
transition policy.
The Berkshire East SCT team
are a cohesive team of professionals including Psychologists, Family Therapist,
Art Therapist, nurses, CBT therapist, assistants and a very experienced admin
team who run our clinics with great expertise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Contribution to the assessment of child and young people presenting to the team.
- Treatment of children and young people with mental health disorders, tailored to their individual needs, in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- It is expected that the Consultants caseload will vary depending on the complexity of clinical presentations of the young people seen. This will be agreed in regular caseload supervision with the line manager.
Consultation and collaboration with other agencies in the assessment and treatment of complex presentations.
- Meetings and consultations with other members of the team and external agencies as required.
- Planning and co-ordinating mental health services for children, young people and families, where appropriate.
- Preparation of professional assessments and reports on those children or young people known to the post holder.
- Participate in medical audit and evaluation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Contribution to the assessment of child and young people presenting to the team.
- Treatment of children and young people with mental health disorders, tailored to their individual needs, in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- It is expected that the Consultants caseload will vary depending on the complexity of clinical presentations of the young people seen. This will be agreed in regular caseload supervision with the line manager.
Consultation and collaboration with other agencies in the assessment and treatment of complex presentations.
- Meetings and consultations with other members of the team and external agencies as required.
- Planning and co-ordinating mental health services for children, young people and families, where appropriate.
- Preparation of professional assessments and reports on those children or young people known to the post holder.
- Participate in medical audit and evaluation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Excellent knowledge in specialty.
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment.
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych
- Additional clinical qualifications.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Essential
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
- Ability to work in and lead team.
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Participated in continuous professional development.
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality
- improvement programmes.
Desirable
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and
- postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this
- post.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Excellent knowledge in specialty.
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment.
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych
- Additional clinical qualifications.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Essential
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
- Ability to work in and lead team.
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Participated in continuous professional development.
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality
- improvement programmes.
Desirable
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and
- postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this
- post.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
