Locum Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (Inpatient CAMHS)

We are pleased to announce that an exciting opportunity has arisen at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health.

This is a Fixed term Consultant role for 12 months, working 10 sessions per week.

The Coborn Centre is a highly specialised in-patient service for adolescents with severe and complex mental disorder.

The service is a centre of excellence, rated as Outstanding by the CQC.

The Coborn Centre comprises of 3 provisions including a PICU service, an Acute ward, and a Day Service.

There is a highly experienced, well established expert multidisciplinary team providing a comprehensive holistic biopsychosocial assessment and treatment packages to young people and families who actively participate in co-production.

East London NHS Foundation Trust has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation, and quality improvement.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life.

Main duties of the job

The role of the consultant psychiatrist will be to provide psychiatric assessments and treatment where appropriate; undertake risk assessments; contribute a psychiatric perspective and provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team; provide consultation to other professionals and agencies and contribute to service developments.

The post holder will also be expected to participate in a range of other activities, particularly healthcare governance, quality improvement, teaching and training.

Job responsibilities

• Possesses an extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills
• Concerned to maintain and develop this knowledge
• Displays sound professional judgement
• Exercises sound clinical risk management
• Sees patients within an holistic context
• Creative in the design and implementation of treatment programmes
• Appreciation and understanding of transcultural and gender issues in psychiatry
• Shows an approach based on critical enquiry and evidence based practice
• Able to balance competing demands and prioritise
• Strong leadership and co-ordination skills with ability to direct and organise teams
• Excellent communication skills with a range of different people
• Ability to build effective relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other professionals
• Ability to cope with considerable pressure and adapt to constant change and new demands
• Shows enthusiasm and initiative in pursuing innovation and the highest standards for patients, juniors, colleagues and the organisation

Person Specification

• Full GMC registration
• MRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent
• Eligible for inclusion on the specialist register or higher trainee within 6 months of CCT
• Section 12 approved and Approved Clinician status or willing to apply for approval
• Higher academic degree
• Experience of managing CYP with eating disorders in acute or community settings
• Familiarity with problem based learning approaches
• Training in management skills
• Experience of management of a clinical area
• Experience of service development
• Experience in a research project
• Publication accepted by peer review journals in a relevant academic field

Additional Information

• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.