Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry at Collingham Child and Family Centre

Search here to find a new job, a new career, an opportunity to up skill or to simply change your career direction.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

There's a place for you at CNWL.

We're passionate about delivering first class patient centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

To help your onboarding go smoothly, it's essential that internal applicants:

Use their NHS.net email address in their TRAC profile

Ensure your application is marked to show that you are a current CNWL staff member

Applications using personal email addresses (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo) will not be recognised, and the process simply won't work. There is also a charge to change new starter personal email addresses to their NHS.net email address.

Before you apply:

Log into TRAC and update your email to your NHS.net address

Check your application details and make sure you are identified as an internal applicant

This small step helps avoid major problems later.

Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry at Collingham Child and Family Centre Speciality Doctor MC75 Main area Mental Health Grade Speciality Doctor MC75 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (no out-of-hours on-call requirements) Hours Part time - 8 sessions per week Job ref 333-G-CA-SA-00012

Site Collingham Child and Family Centre Town London Salary £61,542 - £99,216 per annum, pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/02/:59

Job overview Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry CAMHS Collingham Child and Family Centre Part Time 8PAs, 6 Months Fixed Term We are excited to offer a rare opening for a fixed-term 6-months post for a Specialty Doctor to work at a highly regarded National Children's CAMHS in patient unit at a beautiful Central London location.

Collingham Child and Family Centre is a specialist inpatient mental health unit for children aged 5 12 years. As one of only 6 units of its kind in the UK, the team provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with severe mental disorders which have led to significant impairment of functioning, often with associated risk.

The team includes psychiatrists, nurses, family therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, social workers, dietitian, pharmacist, health care assistants, activity coordinators, administration staff, teachers and teaching assistants. During their time at the centre, children attend the unit school and take part in a variety of therapeutic activities. Parents attend weekly family therapy sessions and can access a number of support groups.

For more information, please contact:

Dr Mari Dominguez, (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist) or call .

Main duties of the job This is a fixed-term specialty doctor post at Collingham Child and Family Centre. The post is for 8PAs to support the existing psychiatry team with assessments, diagnosis, risk reviews, prescribing and medication management, for inpatient children and new referrals.

The post holder will be working alongside and be supported by the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, specialty doctor and resident doctor at Collingham Child and Family Centre. The role of the specialty doctor will be to support the Consultant to provide dedicated, high quality medical care and treatment for young people and their families presenting with a range of mental health issues, neurodevelopmental conditions and/or developmental trauma.

Working for our organisation Central and North West London (CNWL) specialises in caring for people with a wide range of mental and physical health needs and is one of the largest mental health trusts in England. Each CAMHS service has its own local management structure:

Collingham Child and Family Centre CNWL NHS inpatient care team within the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea provides mental and emotional health services to children under the age of 13, their families and carers experiencing and needing help with thoughts feelings, difficult experiences, emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties in family life, school or the wider world. These include psychosis, affective disorders, developmental disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, self harm and disordered eating.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical Work

• To undertake psychiatry assessments of young people and families referred to Collingham Child and Family Centre, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.
• To contribute to the clerking and assessment on admission for inpatient children, including consideration of the legal framework for admission, mental state examination, risk assessment and physical examination of the child.
• To provide medication treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the supervision of the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
• To contribute to assessments under the Mental Health Act.
• To contribute to the discharge process of inpatient children, including use of outcome, clinical coding and ensuring safe discharge planning.
• To communicate medical/psychiatry issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and contribute to MDT meetings (e.g. ward rounds, CPA/review meetings,.)
• To liaise with community professionals (e.g. community CAMHS, school, social care, others) and with medical colleagues (e.g. GPs, A&E, Paediatricians, etc), and attend professionals' meetings, as required per the child's care.
• To ensure good record keeping and clinical documentation of assessments, interventions, and liaison, as per GMC guidance, and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
• To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.
• To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.

Duty work

The post holder will be part of a psychiatry rota for Collingham Child and Family Centre together with the resident doctors to ensure psychiatry cover during weekdays (9am-5pm).

On-call: There are no out-of-hours on-call requirements linked to this post. There may be opportunities to join a resident doctor out-of-hours rota depending on experience.

Person specification Education, Qualifications and Training

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration
• GMC Licence to Practise
• Section 12 MHA Approved

Experience, Skills and Abilities

• Completed at least four years full time postgraduate training (or its equivalent on a part time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term trainee or have equivalent experience and competencies
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Psychological therapies training/experience

Personal Skills & Qualities

• Excellent communication and empathic skills
• Experience of team working
• Good organisational skills
• Enthusiasm and interest in becoming involved with the opportunities Harrow CAMHS has to offer

Other

• Experience of quality improvement projects
• Research and teaching experience
• Driver with own car

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team . click apply for full job details