Locum Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (Inpatient CAMHS) Locum Consultant -
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (Inpatient CAMHS)
Fixed Term - 12 months.
Location: Coborn Centre
We are pleased to announce that an exciting opportunity has arisen at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health. This is a Fixed term Consultant role for 12 months.
The Coborn Centre is a highly specialised in-patient service for adolescents with severe and complex mental disorder. It is based in vibrant multicultural East London. The service is a centre of excellence, rated as Outstanding by the CQC.
The Coborn Centre comprises of 3 provisions including a PICU service, an Acute ward, and a Day Service. There is a highly experienced, well established expert multidisciplinary team providing a comprehensive holistic biopsychosocial assessment and treatment packages to young people and families who actively participate in co-production.
East London NHS Foundation Trust has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation, and quality improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life.
Main duties of the job The role of the consultant psychiatrist will be to provide psychiatric assessments and treatment where appropriate; undertake risk assessments; contribute a psychiatric perspective and provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team; provide consultation to other professionals and agencies and contribute to service developments.
The post holder will also be expected to participate in a range of other activities, particularly healthcare governance, quality improvement, teaching and training. We would be particularly interested in talking to potential candidates about their areas of special interest.
Post holder will work closely with the 2 other consultants in the service and with the multidisciplinary team in the assessment and management of young people and families with severe and enduring mental disorder as well as liaising with community stakeholders including CAMHS, Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Teams, Acute Hospital and Adult Mental Health teams.
About us Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who champions these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
We are committed to active co-production and have recently appointed a people Participation lead within the service. We also have a range of Quality Improvement projects at the Coborn and work closely with community colleagues particularly in developing our admission avoidance work in each community system we serve We are also in active collaboration with our CAMHS Collaboratives, and our partner Unit also run by ELFT, Evergreen, in Luton. Collaboration and joint working are key.
Job responsibilities Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
For any queries, please contact Dr Ravi Patel ravi.patel4@nhs.net
To apply, visit www.jobs.nhs.uk and search under the relevant job reference number
Person Specification Education / Qualifications
Full GMC registration
MRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent
Eligible for inclusion on the specialist register or higher trainee within 6 months of CCT
Section 12 approved and Approved Clinician status or willing to apply for approval
Higher academic degree
Skills / Abilities
Possesses an extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills
Concerned to maintain and develop this knowledge
Displays sound professional judgement
Exercises sound clinical risk management
Sees patients within an holistic context
Creative in the design and implementation of treatment programmes
Appreciation and understanding of transcultural and gender issues in psychiatry
Shows an approach based on critical enquiry and evidence based practice
Able to balance competing demands and prioritise
Higher training in a specific psychotherapeutic treatment or modality eg. Family Therapy, CBT, individual or group psychotherapy.
Experience of managing CYP with eating disorders in acute or community settings
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Strong leadership and co-ordination skills with ability to direct and organise teams
Excellent communication skills with a range of different people
Ability to build effective relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other professionals
Ability to cope with considerable pressure and adapt to constant change and new demands
Shows enthusiasm and initiative in pursuing innovation and the highest standards for patients, juniors, colleagues and the organisation
Teaching
Experience of teaching in small groups and lecturing
Commitment to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, academic and clinical
Familiarity with problem based learning approaches
Management/Audit
Enthusiastic and organised approach to audit and quality assurance
Ability to operate effectively in a committee
Training in management skills
Experience of management of a clinical area
Experience of service development
Research
Experience in a research project
Publication accepted by peer review journals in a relevant academic field
Ability to travel to other venues in the community including patients homes
Driving license
Other
Meets professional health requirements
Adherence to the highest ethical and professional standards
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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