Job Overview
Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)?
As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service, ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people.
This service will offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts and advocating for young people to receive the right interventions and services.
You will respond to emergency presentations, including Mental Health Act assessments, and consult and support colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations as part of the multidisciplinary team.
Flexibility is required to cover three District General Hospitals: the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital.
We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. A relocation allowance of up to £8,000 is available for external applicants, subject to eligibility criteria.
Main duties of the job
You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a comprehensive liaison offer across BSW, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts, and liaising with networks around young people. You will advocate for them so they receive the right interventions and services. This includes developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CaHTs) and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions.
You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on your caseload and other medical staff under your supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working, you will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but will not be medically responsible for all patients seen by the team. You will be required to respond to emergency presentations, including Mental Health Act assessments, and support team members and wider colleagues in managing high-risk cases. Consultation to other teams and services will support formulation and care planning for young people within a CAMHS Liaison remit.
Responsibilities
* Respond to emergency presentations, including Mental Health Act assessments.
* Provide medical supervision for children, adolescents and families.
* Lead and advise multidisciplinary team members.
* Consult and support colleagues in managing high-risk and complex presentations.
* Develop close links with BSW Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CaHTs) and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit.
* Advise on formulation and care planning for young people within the liaison remit.
* Support the formulation and care planning of young people that fall within the CAMHS Liaison remit.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
* Medical degree
* Fully registered with the General Medical Council
* Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
* Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines).
* Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
Desirable Qualifications
* A higher degree such as MD or PhD
* Additional clinical qualifications
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice.
* In good standing with RCPsych with respect to CPD.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Experience of clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
* Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
* Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
* Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
Desirable
* Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
* Experience of working at consultant level in a CAMHS Community or Inpatient setting
Organisational Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Leadership skills
* Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role‑modeling these behaviours.
* Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
* Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
* Commitment to working in a multidisciplinary setting
* Commitment to working with service users on service development
Desirable
* Formal leadership and management training
* Experience of team /service leadership
* Experience of organisational development work
* Project management ability
Other Requirements
Essential
* Full registration
* Meet specifications set out in the GMC
* Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites
Desirable
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
* UK driving licence or evidence of a proposed alternative.
* Access to a vehicle for work purposes (adjustments can be made in line with the Equality Act).
Clinical Skills and Supervision
Essential
* Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
* Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
* Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
* Expertise in risk assessment
* Confident in therapeutic risk‑taking
* Commitment to clinical governance
Desirable
* Wide range of specialist and sub‑specialist experience relevant to post
* Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors
Teaching
Essential
* Experience in teaching resident doctors
* Good teaching and communication skills
* Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
* Experience of teaching non‑medical mental health professionals
Desirable
* Medical education qualification
Research and Audit
Essential
* Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice
* Audit or other quality improvement experience
Desirable
* Experience of grant‑funded project work
* Publications in peer‑reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
Benefits
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust‑wide learning and development
* 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 35 days after seven years seniority
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
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