Consultant Psychiatrist - Liaison CAMHS

Job overview

Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)?

As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people.

This service will look to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts and advocating for them to receive the right interventions and services.

You'll be responding to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult and support  colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations working as part of the MDT. Flexibility is required to cover three District General Hospital’s (DGHs): the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital.

We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria). If you're looking for a rewarding role where you can make a difference to the lives of young people, join our CAMHS liaison service.

Main duties of the job

You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer across BSW which will need to consider medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them so they receive the right interventions and services for them. This will also include developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home treatment Service (CaHTs) which accepts referrals for young people in crisis and requiring intensive home treatment and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon  to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions for young people

You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on their caseload and other medical staff under your supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working you'll be offering leadership and advice to MDT members but will not be medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. You'll  be required to be available to respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult to and support team members and wider colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk presentations. Consultation to other teams and services is also required to support with formulation and care planning for young people that fall within a CAMHS Liaison remit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working.  If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.

You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services:

BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube