Main area: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
10 sessions per week (Neath Port Talbot Hospital Block D)
Job ref: 130-MHSG9913S-E
Employer: Swansea Bay University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Neath Port Talbot Hospital
Town: Port Talbot
Salary: £100,000 - £146,000 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/12/2024 23:59
Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:
* Caring for each other - in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals.
* Working together - as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first.
* Always improving - so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.
The Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Service Group are seeking to appoint a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist who will work within the multidisciplinary community Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join a clinical team including consultant psychiatry colleagues, nurses, psychologists, therapists and a wider medical workforce to deliver SBU Community CAMHS as part of the CAMHS Directorate. The service provides CAMH services across Part 1 and Part 2 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure (2010), including Local Primary Mental Health Support Services, liaison services with schools and local authority services and a Crisis Team.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered with the GMC
* Licensed to practice
* On Specialist Register with GMC as a specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or eligible for CCT within 6 months of date of interview and have passed exit exam or a statement of eligibility for registration issued by PMETB or a primary medical qualification and recognized specialist qualification from a European Member State which will allow direct entry to the GMC Specialist Register
* Teaching qualification/Higher qualification in medical education
Experience
* Evidence of an ability to develop effective working relationships, on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff.
* Evidence of working with management and clinical colleagues to improve a service.
* Values partnership with other agencies.
* Evidence of teaching and training of post/undergraduate clinical staff.
* Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit.
* Experience of research in areas specific to CAMHS.
* Specific Interests/ Experience within Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
* Development and commissioning of CAMH Services.
Skills & Abilities
* Effective leadership; ability to take responsibility and demonstrate leadership when appropriate.
* Understands the importance of effective Team Working with all levels of staff.
* Understands and can apply the principles of Prudent Healthcare.
* Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with patients, colleagues, relatives and staff.
* Understands information systems and technology.
* Demonstrates learning in Improvement science and methodology, ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the service.
Personal Attributes
* Flexible and adaptable to competing demands with the ability to work effectively under pressure.
* Ability to undertake on-call.
* A commitment to continuous improvement, with a positive attitude.
* Enthusiasm to take a lead role in clinical development.
* Empathy and sensitivity: ability to listen, understand and involve people.
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and applications are welcomed from persons with disabilities.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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