Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Location:

Stepping Stones Clinic

13 Montmorency Gardens

N11 1FG

Nearby tube stations: Arnos Grove

Nearby overland train station: New South Gate station

Opening Hours:

The clinics opening hours are Mondays to Fridays 8 AM 8 PM as well as Saturdays 9 1PM

Remote working:

Most of our clinicians offer some online and some face to face sessions.

Facilities:

Our new venue offers 6 Consulting rooms, a waiting room and a small staff kitchen.Further refurbishment work over the next year will add a further 7 clinical rooms as well as capacity for groups and larger workshops/training.

Clinical offer of clinic:

We provide assessment and treatment for children, young people and their families and we are also able to provide treatment to young adults up to the age of 25.The service is a dynamic service that work with our patients to form holistic care packages around their needs.We monitor our outcomes and have continuous clinical and service audits in place.We are transparent about our audit outcomes and we publish it on our website every month.We have clear care pathways for neurodevelopmental disorders as well as emotional disorders.

Team working:

We have a dynamic team, consisting of 4 Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists as well as 17 psychologists and therapists.The team has a clinical meeting once a month and a business meeting once every 3 months.Most cases has a child and adolescent psychiatrist involved as well as a psychologist or therapist.When there is a need, ad hoc meetings happen as frequently as needed with the clinicians involved in a particular case.

Audits, incidents, patient feedback and lessons learned:

Monthly quality audits as well as patient feedback and incident investigation reports feed into the lessons learned audit, which is circulated to the team and the board on a monthly basis.

Supervision and appraisal:

All clinicians have an annual appraisal.All clinicians are expected to have clinical supervision of their clinical work.

Safeguarding:

All clinicians have up to date safeguarding training.Our clinic director is the safeguarding lead.Stepping Stones Clinic also has established connections with the designated nurse of Enfield Safeguarding.

2ROLE OF THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST

Role:

The newly appointed psychiatrist will work alongside 4 consultant colleagues.The post holder will be expected to do up to 60 - 80% of their time per week on site in the clinic, delivering face to face work and the remainder of the clinical work can be remotely.

The postholder will be expected to do diagnostic assessments as well as ASD and ADHD assessment.The post holder will manage risk, where needed and provide treatment as required.The role will involve writing of initial assessment reports as well as ASD and ADHD reports and follow-up letters after each session.

Support:

The post holder will be supported in their role with a typist who will type all dictated reports and letters.Additionally the post holder will be supported by a PA that will help with management of all other admin tasks.

The post holder will also be supported by a team of assistant psychologists who will do the psychometric testing for ASD and ADHD.

Additionally the post holder is supported by a team of psychologists and therapists who will help and support with providing therapy and joint working with patients.

Appraisal, supervision and PDP:

Stepping Stones Clinic is a Designated body and Dr Trudie Rossouw is the RO.All consultants are appraised and revalidated according to the GMC specification.We commission an external appraiser who reports to Dr Trudie Rossouw.

The child psychiatrists has a weekly consultant meeting where cases are discussed.The weekly meeting fulfils the role of group supervision as well as the PDP group.

Audit:

All consultants participate in quarterly quality audits, which supports their appraisal folders.Patient feedback as well as activity figures are collected, which feeds into consultant appraisal too.

Working Hours:

The newly appointed role will be 40 hours per week for a full time role.The hours can be work flexibly within the hours that the clinic is open.

This role has no on-call component.

Annual leave:

Annual leave is dependant on years of experience as a consultant and in line with the NHS leave provision.The post holder will also get their birthday as a leave day.

Study leave:

The post holder will have 5 study leave days per year.

Indemnity insurance:

The post holder will need to have their own indemnity insurance, which the clinic will re-imburse.

Pension:

The clinic will provide a contribution towards the postholders pension.The pension fund that the clinic is using is NEST pensions.

Bonus:

A 10% annual bonus will be paid out to the consultant depending on quality of work over the course of the year.

Clinical expectations:

The consultants time table will be planned as follows:

New cases will be booked for 90 minutes in the consultants diary, but the consultant will spend 60 minute with the case in a clinical meeting and then use 30 minutes for dictation after the session

Follow up cases are booked for 30 minutes in the consultants diary, but the consultant spend 25 minutes with the case and then has 5 minutes for dictation

Additionally the consultant will have 90 minutes a day for admin and 30 minutes for lunch

Once week the consultant has an additional 2 hours for report writing ( ASD and ADHD reports)

The clinical expectation of the consultants time table is 6 clinical hours a day.Initially this will be mainly new cases ( 3 4 a day) but as the consultant starts building up their case load, the time table will be a mixture of new cases and follow ups per day.

Following ASD and ADHD assessments, the consultant will offer feedback meetings to patients for ASD feedback meetings, we offer 60 minutes for the meeting and for ADHD feedback, we offer 30 minute meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCPsych or equivalent. On the GMC specialist register as a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry

Experience

Essential

• At least 6 months experience as a consultant in the NHS

Desirable

• Experience in ASD and ADHD assessment and treatment
• Neuropsychiatric experience

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Experience in clinical audit
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to provide quality care
• Ability to manage their own time effectively
• Ability to organise themselves and their work effectively

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.

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

Stepping Stones Clinic

Address

13 Montmorency Gardens

London

N11 1FG

Employer's website

https://www.steppingstonesclinic.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)