SPECIALTY DOCTOR EATING DISORDERS PSYCHIATRY (MAIDSTONE/CANTERBURY)
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Main area CAMHS EATING DISORDERS PSYCHIATRY Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 6 sessions per week Job ref 395-MED515-24
Site The Courtyard, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, ME14 1PA, & Town Canterbury Salary £59,175 - £95,400 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/02/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
COMMUNITY CAMHS EATING DISORDERS PSYCHIATRY
SPECIALTY DOCTOR
(MAIDSTONE/CANTERBURY - KENT)
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
Contract
Substantive
Hours
None
Location
The Courtyard, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, ME14 1PA, & George Turle House, Canterbury, CT2 8JY
Qualifications needed:
1. Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
2. Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.
3. Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders, and in specific eating disorders.
4. At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to:
1. Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Kent and Medway.
2. Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases.
3. Provide guidance and supervision to the team.
4. Work directly with children and young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals.
5. Work alongside the CAMHS and Adult Consultant Psychiatrists within the service.
6. Develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards.
7. Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
8. Support your peers and the team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
9. Supervise junior colleagues and liaise with other health and social professionals and agencies.
To be successful in your application, you will need:
1. To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values.
2. To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health care.
3. Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care.
4. To be a team player.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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