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Job overview

Part-time – 6 PAs��

We wish to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Adolescent Team who provide a highly specialist service for young people in Bromley. You will work with adolescents up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant and acute mental health difficulties who are at risk of requiring Tier 4 inpatient care.��

Bromley CAMHS maintains close links with CAMHS services across all three boroughs (Bexley, Greenwich) and there will be an opportunity to contribute to ongoing work in developing services for young people with crisis and acute presentations.�� We are a friendly, busy and thriving service, regarded as an accessible and effective service.��

Applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly will be welcomed.

Main duties of the job

The Bromley Adolescent Team is the treatment pathway for children and young people who experience acute mental health conditions and who may be at risk of inpatient admission, requiring a rapid response, intensive intervention, crisis and risk management. The team adopts a Mentalisation-based approach in clinical work with young people and their families/support network.

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In broad terms, the function of the Adolescent Team is:

To provide a rapid response assessment and treatment service with intensive interventions to young people who experience significant or acute mental health difficulties

��To support young people to remain in the community where possible and for those who are admitted to inpatient care, to facilitate transition to and from community services

To provide consultation, support and to work in close partnership with professionals and carers in the young person’s network

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Working for our organisation

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

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Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

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“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve

people’s lives.”