Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

We are pleased to invite enthusiastic and dynamic candidates to join our team. This is a new permanent role which has been created to meet the increasing demand for children's mental health services in the borough. This is a split role between community CAMHS and the paediatric mental health team (PMHT) at the Whittington hospital, where the post holder will be based for one day a week. The successful candidate will support Islington community CAMHS by providing clinical leadership, psychiatric consultations and appropriate interventions as needed, and will provide clinical leadership to the paediatric liaison team with an emphasis on crisis assessments and management. There are opportunities for paediatric liaison work if this is in the post holder's interests.

Job responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and consultation to colleagues within Islington CAMHS.
• Offer urgent psychiatric consultations to CYP presenting in mental health crises at the Whittington hospital.
• Assist the MDT in diagnostic decision-making via consultation for neurodevelopmental assessments (autism/ADHD/tics). New cases allocated for treatment to the post holder will already have had an assessment. The post holder will be allocated two new cases per month.
• Support the psychiatry group by contributing to psychiatry consultations and the daytime duty rota.
• Address any emergencies for existing patients as they arise.
• Arrange cross cover when away.
• Foster good working relationships with Islington AAOT and CAMHS, NCL partners and the NCEL collaborative.
• Liaise with wider networks (e.g., social care and education) to support young people with significant mental health concerns.
• Contribute to UCLMS teaching for psychiatry and paediatrics.
• Contribute to service development and innovation in line with the NCEL, NCL and national strategic aims.
• Contribute to audit, QI and research activity according to the service needs and priorities. A designated audit and QI lead supports all projects.
• Weekly supervision of resident doctors.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Inclusion on The GMC's specialist Register or eligible for inclusion on Specialist Register for Psychiatry (CCST or equivalent) or within 6 months of award of CCST by date of interview.

Training

• Training and experience of safeguarding, governance and legislation issues specific to children and adolescents
• Section 12 (20) and AC Approval (Mental Health Act) or willing to apply for such approval once in post
• Additional training or experience in therapeutic modalities applicable to children, young people and families (CBT, DBT, systemic or psychodynamic psychotherapy)
• Experience of mental health work in child health settings

Other

• Experience of audit and outcome monitoring
• Competence in delivering evidence-based practice
• Compliance with national and professional guidelines
• Membership of Medical Defence organisation
• Capacity to be in a leadership role contributing to clinical governance and strategy for child and adolescent mental health

Skills & Experience

• Wide experience of therapeutic work with children and young people and their families/carers, including psychopharmacology
• Experience of managing complexity and risk in acute and crisis settings
• Experience in assessment and management of young people presenting with mental health emergencies
• Experience and knowledge of multidisciplinary, multi-agency working with children
• Experience of teaching, supervision and consultation for doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level and MDT staff
• Highly developed skills in analysis and formulation of clinical problems and a high level of competence in verbal and written communications to a multiagency audience
• Clinical interest/experience in the specialist area of CAMHS crisis and/or Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
• Experience of research and submitting publications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.