Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties of the Post

1.                    The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team within the Integrated Children’s Service, working closely with consultant colleagues in CAMHS and Paediatrics, CAMHS MDTs and alongside Managers.

2.                    The post-holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist level clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people with general psychiatric disorders in City Care Centre, Peterborough at approximately 1 new case per week.

3.                    The post holder will work mainly with Core North team. Further considerations can be made if post holder wish to allocate some PAs to work with Neurodevelopmental team (ADHD pathway).

4.                    Attend and help shape the team meetings in order to ensure robust clinical governance activities are maintained including appropriate CPD slots, arranged by the Team Manager in collaboration with senior clinicians.

5.                    Link with Home treatment team and the crisis team– this will include supporting IST workers to formulate its cases and plan patient’s care as the patient’s Tier 3 consultant.

6.                    2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional one PA (or pro-rata) is also allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holder’s professional development and the Trust’s ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services. There is a termly CPD event. Examples of SPA activity include working within the Trust’s governance structure e.g. participation in the Ethics Committee, Clinical Audit and NICE Implementation Group, the Medicines Management Committee or fulfilling the role of Lead Clinician. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.

7.                    Training of Core, Specialty and GP trainees including as their Consultant Supervisor. The North CAMH and NDS team is a placement for CPFT’s Core Training scheme and Specialty Trainees in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry who are on the East of England Higher Training Scheme. We now also train GPs in Secondary Care, so there will the expectation for the post-holder to train a GP trainee in Secondary Care if the opportunity arises.

8.                    Contribute to the daytime Duty Consultant rota together with Consultant colleagues and ensure Consultant cover is available as needed for the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.

9.                    Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Providing Consultant Child Psychiatry, non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners. This is a Trust-wide rota covering all of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the three Tier 4 units and the three acute hospitals. Advice may need to be provided to the 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and 9-9pm CAMHS crisis service. There is an expectation that phone calls will be responded to promptly and that on occasion consultants may be required to attend a hospital site to assess patients. There is current review of remuneration for on-call through a diary exercise.

10.              Contribute to the teaching and training of STs, CTs, medical students and MDT members.

11.            CTs and STs work within the department as part of their psychiatric rotations.  There will be an opportunity to undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for these doctors in training.

12.              Access to admin support is through the Peterborough Admin Hub.  Core and the Neurodevelopmental service have dedicated administrators. 

13.              Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people on an occasional basis and attend to any safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.

14.              Maintain high quality clinical records and otherwise participate in the administrative duties associated with patient care and the running of the service.

15.              Collaborate with medical colleagues to maintain the service in the absence of departmental colleagues due to annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.