Description
We are seeking a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our City & Hackney Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. The successful candidate will provide senior clinical consultant psychiatry input and leadership to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Team.
The post-holder will be expected to provide Consultant input into the Behaviour Support and Outreach Team, Assessment Clinics, and Consultant Duty Rota. The consultant will be joining a team of 5 other Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (3.6 WTE) in City & Hackney Specialist CAMHS and CAMHS Disability Service.
The role of the consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies, and facilitate the development of the team and wider service.
The current post holder holds a case load of around 30 children and young people for whom there is an ongoing prescribing need, many of whom are managed jointly with another member of the MDT.
While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team, being involved with the team manager and locality manager in helping to steer the development of the service in line with the strategic direction of the organization.
The salary for this post is £113,565 to £150,569 per annum, pro rata.
Responsibilities:
- Provide psychiatric assessment and treatment where appropriate
- Contribute a psychiatric perspective
- Provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team
- Offer consultation to other professionals and agencies
- Facilitate the development of the team and wider service
Requirements:
- Full GMC registration
- MRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent
- Extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills
- Experience of assessment and management of CYP with complex mental health disorders
- Displays sound professional judgement
- Exercises sound clinical risk management