Description
Consultant Psychiatrist Community CAMHS Eating Disorders Orchards Health Centre, Gascoigne Road Barking IG11 7RS
This post is for a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, 8 Programmed Activities, in the All Age Eating Disorder Service, based at Orchards Health Centre, Gascoigne Road, Barking, IG11 7RS.
The post holder will provide senior medical leadership and specialist medical input within the Eating Disorder Service, supporting high-quality assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and treatment planning in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to children and young people with eating disorders and associated mental health needs, across Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest.
The post holder will be part of the Senior CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT.
Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
- To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Clinical Skills:
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
Benefits:
- The salary range is £113,565 to £150,569 a year.
- The post is permanent and part-time.