Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS - Getting More Help (GMH) North

Job overview

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in cultural and picturesque Oxfordshire?

We have a full-time Consultant opportunity in our Getting More Help North CAMHS team based within a well-resourced multidisciplinary team. You'll be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care, offering a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being.

You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision. You will also be part of a Trust wide Consultant network where there are opportunities to liaise with colleagues in other posts throughout the Trust and develop peer networks. You'll also see Consultant peers at regular division meetings in the locality and at clinical governance meetings.

We're looking for candidates who have experience of working in CAMHS and have great interpersonal skills working collaboratively with colleagues  and our team managers, providing leadership and clinical expertise to our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary teams. Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and on the Specialist Register or be within six months attaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or an equivalent approved indicator of training.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the Getting More Help North team. You will be responsible for patients you assess directly, as well as for those seen by medical staff working under your direct supervision.
• Assess new cases and manage their case load working with other clinicians in the team
• Support and develop evidence-based practice and evaluation within the team
• Liaise effectively with other services and agencies (education and social care)
• Manage mental health crises including use of the mental health act where appropriate
• Support and enable appropriate admission and discharge of patients from inpatient unit
• Assess new routine, urgent and emergency referrals from other agencies alongside other clinicians, provide consultation to non-medical clinicians and offer ongoing management for patients requiring longer term care
• Contribute to the Post Assessment clinic consultation slot
• Contribute to Locality Peer Supervision
• Support the induction of the Clinical Team and Medical Team
• Take part in the locality Duty Medic Rota
• Attend the locality Medical Team Meeting and Clinically Team Meeting
• Lead on staff training, regularly offer teaching slots in the Breakfast Teaching Slot
• Contribute to the Supervision Tree and Lead on supervising Medical Trainees
• Complete Routine, Urgent, Emergency and MHA Assessments.
• Attend routine and urgent Multi-Agency patient planning meetings with other agencies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CAMHS services are provided across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North-East Somerset.  CAMHS are managed in a coordinated way across the counties, but with separate services in each of the counties, relating to the local authorities and clinical commissioning groups. CAMHS has established good quality working links with local authority partner agencies in all counties, paediatric departments and mental health services for adults, all of which have been reflected in CAMHS strategy agreements within each county.

Services for children with learning disabilities are integrated into CAMHS. Oxfordshire CAMH Services sit within the Oxfordshire and BSW Mental Health Directorate, which is committed to always work in a way that respects, upholds and promotes children’s rights, including the right to be protected from significant harm.  These principles are embedded within strategy, operational and staff appointment procedures, as well as clinical governance arrangements.

The Trust is committed to high quality teaching and training for medical students, post graduate trainees in psychiatry, specialty doctors, students and other professionals and we work closely with the Psychiatric Department of the University of Oxford. The Consultant will provide direct clinical supervision and line management with opportunities to develop your skills in these areas.

Please see current Team Leaflet  for more information. There are undergoing quality improvement projects to align Teams with the Neighbourhood Model from the NHS 10y Plan.

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.

Interviews for this role will be held on Wednesday 29 July via Teams.