Job overview

North West Sussex CAMHS Service have an exciting opportunity for a permanent, Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Consultant Psychiatrist to join their locality team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an integral part in prioritising the delivery of a safe, effective and caring service to those children and young people (0yrs-18yrs). Psychiatrists are integral for driving change and influencing service development. The Trust has ambitious aims to continuously improve for the good of our patients and we welcome clinical and non-clinical views in order to achieve this together.

You will work as part of a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team which includes nurses, psychologists, systemic family therapists and child psychotherapists. This post will work alongside other Consultants and Specialty Doctors who work in Sussex CAMHS. You will also be part of a Trust wide Consultant network where there are opportunities to liaise with colleagues in other posts throughout the Trust and develop peer networks.

We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees. We also provide training for medical students and Physician Associate students from BSMS.

Main duties of the job

The service we provide is in line with NICE Evidenced Based Treatment for those children and young people. You will provide high quality specialist clinical assessments, including relevant psychiatric and physical investigation to children, young people and their families in a range of settings, and work collaboratively with other members of the team to plan and deliver appropriate individually tailored treatment plans.

• To provide medical psychiatric assessment and intervention, including pharmacology and mental health act assessments to the CAMHS in North West Sussex ensuring best quality and most effective psychiatric care, working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide neuro-developmental assessments i.e. ASD, ADHD in partnership with multi-disciplinary team colleagues working within the agreed care group wide care pathways.
• To work as part of the multi-professional team providing high quality specialist CAMHS clinical advice, assessment and intervention to children and young people in the area in a range of settings.
• To engage families/carers in planning and provision of care.
• To provide timely advice and consultation to GP’s, social services and other referrers, facilitating appropriate access to services.

Working for our organisation

Not only will you be working in a county with areas of outstanding beauty such as the south downs, and the 137 miles of coastline, along with exciting cities such as Brighton & Hove - the Trust also offers:

·       Recruitment & retention premia of £25,000.00 subject to role and policy requirements (please liaise with Medical HR for more details - 0300 304 0393)

·       Relocation expenses of up to £8,00.00 subject to role and policy requirements

·       Excellent pension contributions of 23.7%

·       Flexible working opportunities

·       Bespoke, flexible job plans

·       30 days of study leave over a 3-year period supported by a study leave allowance each year.

·       Opportunities to become a medical appraiser.

·       Opportunities to become a clinical/educational supervisor.

·       Monthly Medical Advisory Committees (MACs) which offer further peer support.

·       Responsibility allowances for specific roles and responsibilities

·       A variety of wellbeing support and tools, such as an Employee Assistance Programme, financial wellbeing, Occupational Health etc

·       8 Staff Networks such, ethnic minority, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, women's network, to name a few