As part of our Child Complex Service, you’ll provide vital psychiatric assessments and join discussions in team meetings, contributing insights to develop tailored care plans for complex cases. Your expertise will help bridge connections with local authorities, schools, and voluntary agencies, ensuring comprehensive support for those in need. Bring your skills in consultation, assessment, and care planning to a role where your voice matters, and be a key player in groundbreaking developments within child mental health services. Join us and be part of a caring environment that values collaboration and innovation, making a true difference in the lives of young people and their families.
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.
Fostering and Adoption Kinship Care Team (FAKCT) is a CAMHS service supporting children and young people's emotional wellbeing needs with evidence-based therapeutic interventions. FAKCT comprises a varied multi-disciplinary team, staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including educational psychologists, child psychotherapists, social workers, systemic family therapists, refugee care specialists and trainees from those disciplines.
FAKCT is part of the Child Complex Service within the Complex Mental Health Service Line. We work closely with partners from referring local authorities, schools and voluntary agencies.
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.
o To provide the child and adolescent psychiatry contribution to the multidisciplinary team including consultation and support to the team.
o Attend weekly team meetings and contribute to the Assessment Clinics.
o 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.
o Take part in Mental Health Act assessments if required on cases on caseload during working hours.
o Provide consultation to other members of the team regarding cases held by the team, and psychiatric input to these cases.
o To hold a caseload of cases generally of high complexity, usually jointly with other team members, and provide psychopharmacology if appropriate.
o 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.
o To contribute to data collection, audit, QI and outcome monitoring.
o Provide medical and non-medical interventions alongside team colleagues, join multidisciplinary reviews, and develop clear co-created care plans.
o To be an active member of the senior staff group within the team and undertake leadership and service development duties as required.
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Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
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