Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- 4 months (4 Month Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 260-TP-932
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock & Portman
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 Per annum - (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist for the North Camden Community Team
Fixed Term Contract - 4 Months
Are you a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with a passion for working with children and young people? Are you interested in working in a dynamic and innovative CAMHS team?
This is an exciting opportunity for a child and adolescent psychiatrist to join one of our well-established, diverse and supportive CAMHS teams.
North Camden Community Team CAMHS service supporting children and young people’s emotional wellbeing needs with evidence-based therapeutic interventions. This team comprises a varied multi-disciplinary team, staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including educational psychologists, child psychotherapists, social workers, systemic family therapists, and trainees from those disciplines.
North Camden Community Team is part of the Camden Unit - CAMHS . We work closely with partners from referring local authorities, schools and self-referrals
Candidates are requested to use the section "Supporting Information" on the application form to set out their reasons for applying and their suitability, referring to the person specification, for this post.
Main duties of the job
To provide the child and adolescent psychiatry contribution to the multidisciplinary team including consultation and support to the team.
Attend weekly team meetings and contribute to the Assessment Clinics.
Provide psychiatric assessments including assessment of risk to self and others as part of the integrated MDT team, in a range of settings as required.
Take part in Mental Health Act assessments if required on cases on caseload during working hours.
Provide consultation to other members of the team regarding cases held by the team, and psychiatric input to these cases.
To hold a caseload of cases generally of high complexity, usually jointly with other team members, and provide psychopharmacology if appropriate.
To provide high quality psychiatric reports, which are accessible to a multiagency audience, to assist other agencies to plan their service in light of a child or young person’s mental health difficulties.
To contribute to data collection, audit, QI and outcome monitoring.
Provide medical and non-medical interventions alongside team colleagues, join multidisciplinary reviews, and develop clear co-created care plans.
To be an active member of the senior staff group within the team and undertake leadership and service development duties as required.
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (T&P) are the main provider of CAMHS Services to Camden, and provide a range of regional and national mental heath services.
The Education and Training Directorate provide training for clinicians, social workers, nurses, teachers and many other professionals. The clinician-tutor model and multidisciplinary approach ensures courses are relevant, transformative and empowering.
There are 3 service Lines within the Trust: Children and Families Unit, Camden Unit and Adult Unit. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service comes under the Complex Mental Health Service Line.
Overall, there are 30 multidisciplinary teams in the Trust providing services from pre-birth up to the age of 25. There are 30 Medical Consultants in the Trust. The services cover generic whole area child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) through to highly specialist local and national services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.**
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING/EDUCATION
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- MRCPsych
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Additional clinical qualifications
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a license to practice at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry OR within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Skills, Knowledge & Experiance
Essential criteria
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio- psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Wide experience and skill of therapeutic work with children young people and their families
- Evidence of working flexibly with team members and with young people, and providing appointments in a range of community settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Cavanagh
- Job title
- Team Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 938 2232
- Additional information
Please note:
The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion
For further information about the post please contact: Sheva Habel [email protected]
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