Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-MSCONBANES0111-5
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS, KEYNSHAM
- Town
- KEYNSHAM
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (BaNES)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Job overview
Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking Ìýand growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire?
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.
We have two consultant opportunities in our Bath and North East Somerset CAMHS team; 1 full time and 1x 0.6.Ìý As a Consultant you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/ supervision.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant in the team you will join a multidisciplinary team providing high-quality care to young people and families in the CAMHS Bath and North East Somerset in the Getting More Help service. You will also provide medical input to the Neurodevelopmental Clinic.
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Working for our organisation
This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service. We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams inÌý schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS. Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project. We work closely with our BSW ICB, Local Authorities, NHS providersÌý and Third Sector Partners to transform services for young people up to 25. Ìý
If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people’s mental health and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
These posts are substantive Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatry post with the multidisciplinary team in Keynsham, covering CAMHS in Bath and North East Somerset in the Getting More Help service and Neurodevelopmental assessment clinic (NDC). There are also consultants in the team who provides psychiatric input to the Eating Disorders Service (TEDS) and CAMHS Learning Disability service. The team also offer CAMHS Getting Help Services to young people in the area, a Crisis and Home Treatment Service and outreach work for hard to engage young people. ÌýThere are Mental Health Support Teams in local school and an In-Reach to Bath and North East Somerset Local Authority. We offer a mixed model of treatment with digital and face to face working.
At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working.Ìý If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.Ìý
We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.
You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services:
Find out more about living and working in BSW here:
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- • Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
- • Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric speciality; OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.
Desirable criteria
- • Higher degree/diploma or equivalent in relevant field of medical or psychological studies
- • Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years and/or previous consultant experience
- • Sub-specialty or other specialist clinical training relevant to post.
- • Membership or Fellowship of The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Excellent knowledge in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- • Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- • Experience of effective multiagency partnership at work.
- • Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with emerging personality disorders, conduct and behavioural problems.
- • Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services
- • Ability to undertake full range of Consultant responsibilities.
Desirable criteria
- • Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group.
- • Development of multidisciplinary teamwork, close collaboration with Primary Care services, and working with a multiagency approach, including education, health and social care.
- • High training placement in Adolescent Psychiatry
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions. The ability to assume a medical leadership role within the team and to work closely with senior managers to implement trust objectives
- • Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively. • Commitment to multiagency partnership • Ability to promote effective team working • The ability to prioritise workload and respond in a timely, flexible manner to requests for consultation from colleagues • The ability to use electronic records and diaries • Clinical audit.
- • Must have excellent skills in communication with patients, relatives/carers, colleagues and staff of other organisations.
- • Experience of Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- • Must be skilled in professional collaboration.
- • Experience in supervising basic level psychiatric trainees
- • Must have an interest in and commitment to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- • Honesty and integrity
- • High energy levels
- • Flexibility to cope with service change and demanding clinical challenges
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant experience of administrative and management role or senior medical staff.
- • Teaching qualification.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
- • Meet specifications set out in the GMC
- • Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites
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
- Chandini abraham
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 903889
- Additional information
Name: Dr Josie Harris
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Tel: 01865 903889
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