Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
NHS Lanarkshire – Coathill Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire presents a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative and collaborative large CAMHS service. We are looking to recruit a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to NHS Lanarkshire to join a supportive consultant team.
The dynamic service has undergone significant recent development and enhancement. This has included a Neurodevelopmental Service with clinicians from across Children’s Services which has research links with the University of Glasgow. There have been system redesigns to enhance patient care such as the expansion of the CAMHS Tier 4 teams and the implementation of measures to support consultant psychiatrists. The latter has included the introduction of prescribing pharmacists to the service.
The CAMHS service has four locality teams and in addition has teams which focus on specialist areas including assessments and intervention for; care experienced young people, children and young people impacted by parental mental illness, an eating disorder team and a paediatric psychology team. An infant mental health service is also in place within the health board.
We are keen to promote undergraduate, core and higher teaching and training in the department with links with the medical schools at both the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and doctors in core and higher training posts in the department. In these posts there would also be scope for development of other supporting professional activities such as quality improvement projects.
The post is offered as a full-time post on a 10 PA basis with breakdown being 8 Direct Clinical Care and 2 Supporting Professional Activity, subject to confirmation and approval of the final job plan. Applications will be considered from those wishing to work less than full-time.