Specialty Doctor CAMHS Hillingdon 8PAs (potential for 10PAs)
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
We are currently looking for an 8 PA specialty doctor/psychiatrist to work within Hillingdon CAMHS (CNWL). This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated doctor with creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultants and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, children's services and allied health professionals. You will be working with 4 consultants and a core trainee within the Service.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected to provide medical input into the CAMHS sub-teams including conducting initial assessments, psychiatric assessments, risk assessments and delivering treatments including the initiation and monitoring of pharmacological treatments. The postholder will be expected to support the MDT with regard to comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management planning, guided by the CAMHS care pathways and clinical model.
Job responsibilities
1. To undertake assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.
2. To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.
3. To provide treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist.
4. To attend service wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion.
5. To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases and opportunities for audit.
6. To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.
7. To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
8. To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.
9. To provide clinical care for other patients if their allocated doctor/case manager is unavailable.
10. To gain experience of some psychological treatments.
11. To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.
12. To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
* Primary Medical Degree
* Full GMC Registration
* GMC Licence to Practise
* Section 12 MHA Approved
Experience, Skills and Abilities
* Completed at least four years full time post graduate training (or its equivalent on a part time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term trainee or have equivalent experience and competencies.
* Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry.
* Psychological therapies training/experience.
Personal Skills & Qualities
* Excellent communication and empathic skills.
* Experience of team working.
* Good organisational skills.
* Enthusiasm and interest in becoming involved with the opportunities Harrow CAMHS has to offer.
Other
* Experience of quality improvement projects.
* Research and teaching experience.
* Driver with own car.
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.
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