Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist
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Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young person’s Home Treatment Team.
This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post, ensuring all work undertaken by staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.
Values: We are kind, respectful, and work with our communities.
This is a well‑established post vacated by a consultant leaving the country. A lot of transformation has taken place on Brookside over recent years to ensure that the service provided is rated as Excellent by CQC.
The successful candidate will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit and home treatment team. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. The post holder will also be expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments of CAMHS cases in A&E and the Section 136 suite as required.
There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trust A&E departments and paediatric services to continually improve services.
On‑call Responsibilities
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on‑call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT, covering service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems. The on‑call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently a 1:13 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement, equating to 4 weeks a year.
NELFT Benefits
* Relocation expenses
* Career Development and training
* Just & Compassionate Culture
* Award‑winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
* Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
* Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Health & Wellness initiatives
* 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network
* Retail Discounts
* Flexible working and agile working
* Cycle to work scheme
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Yasmin Sultana
Job title: Associate Medical Director
Email address: Yasmin.Sultana@nelft.nhs.uk
Who To Contact For Informal Inquiries:
Deputy Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sarah Dracass, sarah.dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Yasmin Sultana, yasmin.sultana@nelft.nhs.uk
Acting Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown, helene.brown@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk
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