Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist

Job overview

JOB TITLE:     Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist –Harlow (West Essex) SET CAMHS Team

CONTRACT:  10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive

Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

BASE:             Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG

Main duties of the job

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation.

This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The post is currently filled by a locum doctor due. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

• ●      We are kind ●      We are respectful ●      We work with our communities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

On-call responsibilities:

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT).

The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Harlow and West Essex. The service is provided by one team with one management structure, but due to the size of the area covered it is spread across two main bases.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the teams, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside another CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist in the team (Dr Mariam Cherian) and will share supervision responsibilities for any future trainees based within the team.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services.