# Locum Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (Inpatient CAMHS) **Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1323?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/locum-consultant-child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist-7904a2fc-498/ ## Description 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. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - GMC registration - MRCPsych parts 1&2 - clinical risk management - leadership - communication skills - team management ### Nice to have - higher academic degree - experience of managing CYP with eating disorders - familiarity with problem based learning approaches - training in management skills - experience of service development - research project experience --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1323?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)