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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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
CAMHS Team including Mental Health school Team (MHST), Targeted children’s service including school nursing, health visiting, paediatrics, therapies & children looked after service, administration Staff, Primary Care Providers, Educational Services, Local authority colleagues including social care.
his post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Barking and Dagenham CAMHS Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ.
This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.
The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
●We are kind
●We are respectful
●We work with our communities
Main duties of the job
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation and covered by Locum doctors. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Barking and Dagenham Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
The postholder will be part of the CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover 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 1:12 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement. Once this post is filled, the rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year.
The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Barking and Dagenham.
Working for our organisation
NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people. We are committed to delivering the best careto the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.
We have an excellent reputation for research and quality development, this encouraged innovation, better ways of working and improved delivery of care. Joining us will offer you access to training opportunities, Continuing Professional Development, peer support groups, and a robust appraisal system. We can also offer professional mentoring and leadership training to suit your career stage and encourage your development.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside two other full-time CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists Academic Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrists, two substantive Specialty Doctors, and 1 Core Trainee. The post holder will work closely with the community Paediatric Team to support a fully integrated all age children’s service. You will share supervision for junior members of the team with your consultant colleague.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
·To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
·To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
·To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
· To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Clinical Skills
·To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
·The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
·Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
·To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
·To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
·To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
·To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
·To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MRCPsych or equivalent. Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it. Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
Desirable criteria
2. Postgraduate qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
4. An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
5. An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
6. Excellent clinical skills. Excellent communication skills both verbally and written. Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches. Ability to provide clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team.
7. Experience in managing patients and families from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
8. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
9. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
10. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
11. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.