We are currently looking for an 8 PA specialty doctor/psychiatrist to work within Hillingdon CAMHS (CNWL). This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated doctor with creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultants and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, children's services and allied health professionals. You will be working with 4 consultants and a core trainee within the Service.

For more information, please contact:

Dr Afrooz Kosari, afrooz.kosari@nhs.net (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist) or Enoch Aboagye, enoch.aboagye3@nhs.net (CAMHS Team manager) or call 01895 256521.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be expected to provide medical input into the CAMHS sub-teams including conducting initial assessments, psychiatric assessments, risk assessments and delivering treatments including the initiation and monitoring of pharmacological treatments. The postholder will be expected to support the MDT with regard to comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management planning, guided by the CAMHS care pathways and clinical model.

About us

Therapies lead and team manager who work closely with the outer boroughs service manager. Each sub-team has a psychiatry and therapy lead and they, together with the team and service manager form the local senior management team which meets monthly. The postholder will be part of the SMT. The Harrow CAMHS team is well established and staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using a range of therapeutic interventions including behaviour, systemic, CBT, IPT-A, DBT, psycho-dynamic and group therapies as well as psychopharmacological approaches. Harrow CAMHS is a Tier 3 service, accepting referrals from GPs, paediatrics, schools and Children's Services. The service has active service user groups for young people and parents. The team has a monthly CPD session and local care quality meeting, a doctors meeting twice a month which includes peer group case discussions, a weekly local consultants meeting and a monthly senior management meeting which the postholder will be part of.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.

To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.

To provide treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist

To attend service wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion

To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases and opportunities for audit.

To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.

To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.

To participate in continuing professional development.

To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.

To provide clinical care for other patients if their allocated doctor/case manager is unavailable.

To gain experience of some psychological treatments.

To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.

To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration
• GMC Licence to Practise

Desirable

• Appropriate postgraduate qualifications
• MRCPsych
• Section 12 MHA Approved

Experience, Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Completed at least four years full time post graduate 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

Desirable

• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry
• Psychological therapies training/experience

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential

• Excellent communication and empathic skills
• Experience of team working
• Good organisational skills

Desirable

• Enthusiasm and interest in becoming involved with the opportunities Harrow CAMHS has to offer

Other

Desirable

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

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Minet Clinic

Avondale Drive

Hayes

UB3 3NR

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