# Speciality Doctor E&B **Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £63696.00 to £102689.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1225?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9eb7ecda-6dc ## Description This post will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to young people and their families within the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) Team. The post holder will be expected to conduct specialist CAMHS assessment and offer treatment for young people aged 6-18 presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The role includes work with the wider network and being part of the duty system. Applicants who have experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working inter-culturally are welcomed. Newham CAMHS is a service committed to working with community partners and addressing inequalities. This post is part of a comprehensive Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, within the East London NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary team. There is a strong commitment to clinical supervision and professional development within CAMHS and the wider NHS Foundation Trust including many learning and teaching opportunities. **Main duties of the job** - This is a 6 to 10 session post based in the E&B Team at Newham CAMHS. The sessional commitment will be reviewed through the job plan process, having regard to work commitments and intensity. - The post is based in Newham for East London Foundation Trust. A timetable of commitments will be agreed with the supervising consultant and lead consultant. - The post holder will be accountable to and supervised by the Consultant and Clinical Team Lead for AMHT. - The administrative base for this post is Newham CAMHS at York House. - The post-holder may participate in the teaching of junior medical staff and other disciplines and any in-service training within the team. - Job plans are agreed and reviewed annually for all the Trust's Specialty doctors. The job plan will identify the nature and timing of the fixed commitments. **Job responsibilities** - Prepare reports, letters and clinical summaries as required. - Liaise with other agencies involved in care of patients. - Adhere to documentation standards as part of contract and performance monitoring. - Record all clinical activities and clinical notes on current record keeping system (RiO). - Attend and contribute to team meetings. **Continuing Professional Development** - The postholder will be expected to participate in training and development activities which support the objectives of the service and which will contribute to his/her own personal development plan and continuing medical education. - The postholder will be entitled to study leave in accordance with the terms and conditions of service for specialty doctors. - There is a postgraduate centre at St Bartholomews Hospital and at Newham University Hospital. There is a medical library at The Royal London Hospital. - The supervising consultant and lead clinician are available for advice on continuing postgraduate education and career counselling. **Appointment Procedures** - Person Specification: Please see attached person specification. - The passing of an occupational health assessment is a condition of appointment. - Because of the nature of work of this post, it is exempt from the provisions of section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemption Order 1975). Applicants are, therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions including those which for other purposes are spent under the provisions of the Act, and, in the event of employment, any failure to disclose such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Trust. - Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are a condition of appointment. - An induction programme will be arranged for the successful candidate. - The Trust has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK. ## Skills ### Required - Excellent communication skills - Develop effective working relationships - Function autonomously as well as being a team player - Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients' needs - Apply research and theory to practice - Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management - Mental Health Legislation - Use of outcome measurements - Experience of pharmacological treatments - Risk assessment and risk management - Healthcare Governance - Understanding and knowledge of the Multiagency working ### Nice to have - MRCPsych - Approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act - Evidence based service development - Experience with Audit/Research - Skills and a range of therapeutic interventions and psycho-social treatment options --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1225?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)