Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has come about for a substantive specialty doctor to join the CAMHS team on a full time basis. This funding has come from a previous consultant post within the team.
Gloucestershire CYPS is looking for a permanent member to join the team at Evergreen house, Cheltenham. You will be joining a diverse multidisciplinary team. You will be expected to achieve direct patient contacts representing a mixture of new and review appointments including emergency assessments under supervision from your clinical consultant.
CAMHS is a part of a large Children and Young People directorate in the Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust, including Health Visiting, SALT, Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and school nursing.
Main duties of the job
The role entails both home visits and telephone consultations with service users as appropriate and to provide psychiatric input to children and young people referred to CYPS registered with GPs in Gloucestershire.
The successful candidate will be expected to hold a caseload of both ADHD and generic CAMHS cases.
Participation with multi disciplinary team meetings and reviews is expected.
Participation in clinical duties as appropriate and support future clinical developments.
About us
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
* 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
* 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
* 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
* 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Job responsibilities
Please be aware that the vacancy may close early if a high volume of applicants.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for more information.
Please do contact the service for any questions. Job share would be considered.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS OR EQUIVALENT
* MRPSCYCH
Experience
* Sufficient psychiatry experience
* Postgraduate experience in relevant speciality
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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