Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Main area: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent: Substantive
Hours: Part time - 6 sessions per week (6 PA's)
Job ref: 342-RVN020-SSC-HS-A

Site: Kingswood Hub
Town: Bristol
Salary: £88,364 - £119,133 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/06/2023 23:59

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join an experienced multi-disciplinary team in South Gloucestershire CAMHS.

Our CAMHS services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire are part of the Community Children's Health Partnership (CCHP) which includes all community-based children's healthcare services across the area. CCHP is provided by a partnership with Sirona Care & Health (lead partner), and Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust (AWP).

You will join 19 experienced and supportive Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatry colleagues working across 5 community CAMHS teams and 2 Learning Disability CAMHS teams in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, an Intensive Support and Hospital Assessment Team and a Tier 4 inpatient unit and a variety of specialist CAMHS teams.

We are currently in the process of implementing the i-THRIVE model across AWP CAMHS, in order to transform services alongside young people, carers and our partner agencies. This provides a unique opportunity for you to develop and share your special interest and/or service leadership and management.

AWP has a forward thinking and inclusive medical community and we are committed to your development and helping you to achieve your career aspirations.

We offer one of the most competitive and flexible benefits packages.

Main duties of the job

The diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families with severe and complex mental health problems.

The consultant will carry psychiatric responsibility only for those patients seen by psychiatrists within their respective CAMHS team.
The consultant will not routinely care coordinate. All cases on the consultant’s caseload should have another clinician from the team as care coordinator.

• The post-holder would be expected to offer new assessment appointments, follow-up, consultation and multi-agency liaison, as well as be available for unpredictable emergency work.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post

Person specification

Qualifications and Eligibility

Essential criteria

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable criteria

Relevant Higher Degree e.g MD,PHD,Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Experience

Essential criteria

Wide breadth of clinical experience working with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
Knowledge and evidence of participation in CPD.
Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement.

Desirable criteria

Specific additional therapy training (e.g. CBT, systemic therapy, DBT etc.)

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to appraise own performance as a Consultant
Approachable and compassionate personality with good listening skills

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

Skills in psychiatric assessment, formulation and risk management (including safeguarding) as well as psychopharmacology in children, neurodevelopmental disorders and attachment difficulties

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant

Teaching

Essential criteria

Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.
Understand principles of teaching.

Research and Audit

Essential criteria

Experience or involvement in a research project and publication
Ability to supervise junior medical staff undertaking research projects
Experience of carrying out an audit project

Management

Essential criteria

Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Helen Stephens

Job title

Clinical Lead

Email address

helen.stephens7@nhs.net

Telephone number

0117 340 8600

Additional information

For further information or to arrange a visit please contact:

Dr Helen Stephens, Clinical Lead for CAMHS, Tel: 0117 340 8600; 07714488739

Dr Fiona Barlow, Medical Lead for CAMHS, Tel: 0117 3546800; 07781500158

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