An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 6 PA Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry post providing psychiatric input and service development to the North Somerset CAMHS Community Eating Disorder Service.
The North Somerset Eating Disorder Service will become a spoke of the Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire specialist community eating disorder hub, which has links with Bristol Children’s hospital and Riverside inpatient unit.
The core community CAMHS teams offer extended assessments of new referrals followed by referral on to one of several therapeutic care pathways – CBT, DBT, trauma therapy/EMDR, arts psychotherapy.
The psychiatrist will offer assessment and treatment where required, working alongside a case holder within the team, and be an important member of the multi-disciplinary team, offering psychiatric consultation and formulation.
The post holder will provide psychiatric input to an experienced community Eating Disorder team, working closely with paediatricians and the acute hospitals in Bristol.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.
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