Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist, Full time, Permanent, Eating Disorder service/ Dudley Crisis Role (combined)
You are invited to join a friendly and motivated Medical team within the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Your post will be based at Elms Health Centre Halesowen (Crisis) Ladies Walk Sedgley Dudley (Eating Disorder Service).
The duties of the post holder will include providing eating disorder psychiatric service to Children and Adolescents with eating disorders across Dudley and Walsall. This will include looking after outpatients and community patients covering a population around 500,000.
The post holder will be expected to work closely with the Community Eating Disorder MDT within Dudley and Walsall and to have an active role in the development of the service.
The Consultant in CAMHS crisis and home treatment team will be expected to provide medical expertise and support the existing staff in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of children and adolescents presenting with mental health problems in the designated local hospitals and to the crisis home treatment team.
Number of programmed activities: Dudley CAMHS Crisis: 5 sessions; Dudley and Walsall CAMHS Eating Disorder: 6 sessions.
Main duties of the job
The Eating disorder service/crisis Consultant role is to provide medical expertise and support to existing staff in assessment, diagnosis, and management of Children and Adolescents with Eating disorders/ Crisis Home Treatment Team. The consultant will provide support to clinical colleagues in deciding appropriate interventions for patients referred to the service, including seeing patients referred, working with care pathways, and providing input to pathways. This involves providing direct interventions, liaising with multiple agencies, and collaborative work with agencies to provide a seamless pathway for patients. The consultant is expected to develop a good working relationship with the core CAMHS team, CRHT Team, Paediatric consultants in acute hospitals, regional specialist ED services, and educational and social care services. The consultant will need to work closely with dieticians and interface with GPs and acute wards to manage the physical health of the patient to ensure patient safety, liaising with wards and facilitating discharge through collaborative working with primary care, community services, social care, private providers, and the voluntary sector.
About us
Employees, workers, and/or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that they feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.
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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.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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