COMMUNITY CAMHS SPECIALTY DOCTOR (CANTERBURY & COASTAL – KENT)
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Main area: Mental health
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 5 sessions per week
Job ref: 395-MED536-24
Site: George Turle House
Town: Canterbury
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/02/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
COMMUNITY CAMHS SPECIALTY DOCTOR
(CANTERBURY & COASTAL – KENT)
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
Contract: Substantive
Hours: Optional - worked in PAs
Qualifications needed:
1. Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
2. Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this
3. Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders
4. At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis), of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to:
1. Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Canterbury.
2. Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases.
3. Provide guidance and supervision to the team.
4. Work directly with children and young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals.
5. Work alongside the two full-time CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists within the service.
6. Develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards.
7. Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
8. Offer clinical supervision and teaching to the core trainee on placement.
9. Support your peers and the team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
10. Supervise junior colleagues and liaise with other health and social professionals and agencies.
Person specification
GMC
* Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
Qualifications
* Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this
Knowledge
* Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders
Experience
* At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis), of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format, i.e., Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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