Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Location: Lavender Walk, South Kensington Centre for Mental Health
CNWL are excited to offer a substantive Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist post for a renowned adolescent in-patient unit at an attractive and convenient Central London location. The post holder will provide Consultant input to the unit alongside one other full-time substantive Consultant in post who is currently working as the clinical lead.
As one of only a handful of such units in London, the post will attract an energetic, innovative and dedicated child and adolescent psychiatrist with creative ideas for service development and ideally experience of in-patient work. Lavender Walk has recently revised its Standard Operating Procedure to a model highly focused on shorter, more effective high-quality admissions.
This post attracts a generous annual leave entitlement, study leave, the NHS pension scheme and other financial benefits, such as Relocation package for up to 8K (subject to eligibility) and a range of staff discounts, including purchase and lease of new cars.
Main Duties of the Job
The role of the consultant psychiatrist will be to provide dedicated, high-quality medical care and treatment for adolescents and their families presenting with a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.
The post holder will provide psychiatric assessments, including risk assessment for young people referred to, and those admitted to the service. They will take a leadership role within the team and provide appropriate support and supervision to other team members, as well as specialist psychiatric advice to the multidisciplinary team at Lavender Walk.
The post holder will share clinical supervision responsibilities with the other Consultant for a Higher Trainee and a Core trainee based on Lavender Walk Adolescent Unit.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical duties include:
1. Provide psychiatric assessment, including risk assessment for young people referred to, and those admitted to the service.
2. Clear formulation of psychiatric and social need.
3. Provide treatment for young people admitted to the service.
4. Working in partnership with young people, parents and carers to develop evidence-based, effective and agreed care plans.
5. Coordinating multiagency packages of care, treatment and support for young people and their families with complex mental health problems.
6. Providing consultation, advice and appropriate support to professionals in the wider network of the young person and/or family.
7. Co-ordinate clinical liaison with clinicians in other community CAMHS services and other agencies.
8. Contributing to the CNWL Out of Hours consultant psychiatric on-call rota.
9. Auditing of psychiatric practice and multidisciplinary work.
10. Ensure effective communication with referring and receiving teams throughout the Trust, (including the local urgent/crisis CAMHS team) and regionally/nationwide.
11. Recording of clinical activity and prompt submission of returns in line with service requirements.
12. Maintaining accurate, contemporaneous medical notes in line with the Trust’s record keeping policy.
13. Providing cross cover for CNWL Tier 4 inpatient consultants.
Management duties include:
* Take a leadership role within the team and provide appropriate support and supervision to other team members.
* In partnership with colleagues, developing common clinical policies and guidelines for the teams.
* Identifying areas of unmet needs and alerting the Service Manager and line manager/clinical director if appropriate.
* Active involvement in the Quality Improvement programme for Tier 4 within the organisation.
* Active involvement in local Care Quality and Performance group.
* Work collaboratively with the second consultant in the planning, distribution and allocation of clinical, administrative, professional and managerial tasks.
* Attending and chairing regular meetings as described in the job plan including clinical ward-based meetings, and day patient team meetings.
* Contribute to the strategic development of specialist CAMHS Inpatient Services in association with the NWL PC Clinical Group, NHSE Regional Advisor for CAMHS, NWL STP and the Trust’s management structure.
* Sharing with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Unit and team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)
* On the Specialist Register of the GMC Medical Register or eligible to register within six months.
* Approved Clinician status (or undertaking to obtain this on taking up the post)
* Membership of Royal College of Psychiatrist or equivalent qualifications/certification
Desirable
* Higher degree or additional qualifications
Experience and Training
Essential
* Completion of Higher Psychiatric Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or being within 6 months of achieving CCT accreditation
* Or Equivalent training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CESR issued by PMETB)
* Membership of a professional indemnity organization
* Training will have included psychiatric inpatient management of children of adolescents
* Experience of assessing and managing risk in complex patients in acute and community psychiatric settings
* Competence in child and adolescent psychopharmacology
* Competence in non-medication therapeutic approaches
* Use of evidence-based practice
* Experience of Safeguarding Children Framework
* Engagement with annual appraisal
* Experience in multi-disciplinary teaching
* Ability to take a leadership role in a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring high quality care and staff morale
* Excellent communication skills in verbal and written media
Desirable
* Approved training in relevant therapeutic practice (e.g. CBT, DBT or Family therapy)
* Experience of working within a child or adolescent Tier 4 service/intensive community treatment team at a senior level
* Management Skills and training
* Publications in the field of Psychiatry
* Experience working with different cultural backgrounds
* Experience in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
Employer Details
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: South Kensington Centre for Mental Health, 1 Nightingale Place, London, SW10 9NG
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