Job Summary
Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire?
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.
We have a consultant opportunity in our Swindon CAMHS team. As a Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision.
Main Duties of the Job
As a Consultant in the team, you will join a multidisciplinary team providing high-quality care to young people and families in the Swindon area as part of the CAMHS Getting More Help Team. You will also provide medical input to the Neurodevelopmental Clinic.
About Us
This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service. We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS. Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project. We work closely with our BSW ICB, Local Authorities, NHS providers and Third Sector Partners to transform services for young people up to 25.
If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people's mental health, and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients.
Job Responsibilities
This post is substantive Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatry post with the multidisciplinary team in Swindon, covering CAMHS in south Wiltshire in the Getting More Help service and Neurodevelopmental assessment clinic (NDC) or CAMHS Learning Disability team. There are also consultants in the team who provide psychiatric input to the Eating Disorders Service (TEDS). The team also offers CAMHS Getting Help Services to young people in the area, a Crisis and Home Treatment Service and outreach work for hard to engage young people. We offer a mixed model of treatment with digital and face-to-face working.
At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training Essential
* Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
* Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric speciality; OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.
Experience Essential
* Excellent knowledge in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
* Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working.
* Experience of effective multiagency partnership at work.
* Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with emerging personality disorders, conduct and behavioural problems.
* Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services.
* Ability to undertake full range of Consultant responsibilities.
Other Requirements Essential
* Full registration.
* Meet specifications set out in the GMC.
* Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address: Swindon CAMHS, Marlborough House, Okus Road, Swindon, SN1 4JS
Employer's Website: https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
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