Overview
UCT provides urgent assessments to children and adolescents who present to the emergency department at Northwick Park Hospital or are admitted to paediatric (under 16) or adult medical wards (16–18). UCOS offers short term crisis intervention to prevent emergency presentations. The post sits within the Brent & Harrow Urgent Care Team (UCT) and works with the MDT, which includes a team lead, clinical nurse specialists, psychologist, assistant psychologist, neurodevelopmental crisis specialist and a full-time administrator. Brent & Harrow UCT collaborates closely with Brent CAMHS and Harrow CAMHS, with established links and smooth transfer of care processes to core CAMHS services. CNWL is a large mental health trust organising three CAMHS UCT Teams: Hillingdon UCT, Brent & Harrow UCT, and Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster UCT, each led by a consultant psychiatrist and a team lead. The Trust spans London, Milton Keynes and wider areas, with diverse communities and languages.
Responsibilities
* The appointee will provide daily psychiatric input to the Brent and Harrow Urgent Care Team by offering consultation and psychiatric input.
* Support junior doctors in conducting MHA assessments at the hospital and provide MHA assessments if required.
* Contribute to multiagency meetings for young people presenting at the hospital.
* Contribute to the provider collaborative escalation meetings for young people waiting for psychiatric inpatient beds.
* Take a consultant lead role in the Brent and Harrow urgent care team.
* Provide consultation and psychiatric input to the weekly clinical review meeting for UCT.
* Provide leadership and psychiatric input to the weekly UCOS Clinical Cases discussion meeting.
* Provide continuity of consultant input for young people admitted to paediatric and medical wards and, if required, act as the responsible clinician (RC).
* Provide psychiatric assessments when required and support the Urgent Care Team with emergency work at Northwick Park Hospital and 7-day follow-ups.
* Contribute to monthly senior management meetings for the local CAMHS and to the crisis pathway.
* Lead, with the urgent care team lead, in developing joint crisis pathways and protocols with the acute hospital.
* Attend interface meetings with the emergency department and contribute to professional meetings for young people at the hospital.
* Provide clinical supervision to psychiatry trainees and specialty doctors contributing to the UCT on a case-by-case basis as needed.
* Lead on the development of interface working between UCT and other CAMHS sub-teams as well as ACTS (Adolescent Community Treatment Service).
* Participate in case-based discussions with other CAMHS consultants and junior medical colleagues within the Harrow CAMHS doctors meeting (twice monthly).
* Offer teaching to colleagues at the acute hospital, CAMHS colleagues and trainees and medical students.
* Work with the team lead to provide activity reports and contribute to presenting work to senior management meetings and commissioners (including the North West London Provider Collaborative and CNWL CAMHS Central Care Quality and Performance Management Group).
Post details
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We are looking for a full-time locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to cover a secondment for a substantive post holder. The post is available for 10 months from September 2025 to work within CAMHS Brent & Harrow Urgent Care Team at Northwick Park Hospital. The appointee will have an interest in A&E liaison and crisis intervention work and will join a well-developed MDT providing urgent assessments to children and adolescents presenting to the emergency department and paediatric and adult wards. The team also includes a small crisis intervention team (UCOS) offering brief crisis intervention.
Benefits and terms
* Relocation package up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility).
* Generous annual leave entitlement and study leave.
* NHS pension scheme.
* Range of staff discounts including discounts on purchase and lease of new cars.
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