Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
FRI 29 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include overall clinical responsibility, treatment planning, and regular patient reviews, as well as offering specialist consultation and supervision to mental health practitioners and junior doctors. The role requires collaboration with team leaders and close liaison with primary and secondary care doctors.
The position includes opportunities for continuous professional development, teaching, and research. The Trust supports ongoing education and offers mentoring. The role is based at Washwood Heath Centre, part of a dynamic team delivering innovative mental health services for children and young people in Birmingham.
Are you ready to join our dynamic mental health services undergoing exciting and innovative transformation to improve the mental health experience of children and young people in Birmingham? If so, then look no further!
We are looking to appoint two full-time Psychiatrists in the East Community Service to provide medical leadership to our Core Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team. The post has become available due to retirement and existing vacancies within the service.
High quality consultant appointments are critical to ensuring senior clinical leadership and providing excellent services. We are looking for an engaged and forward thinking Consultants who can work with us within our core community teams.
You will be a qualified consultant Child & Adolescent psychiatrist with full registration with GMC, or within six months of obtaining your specialist registration. Experience of working within an MDT is essential. You will have Approved Clinician status and S12 approval, or be willing to achieve these within three months of appointment.
The successful applicant will be employed by Birmingham Women's and Children's Foundation Trust. As well as working within the ground-breaking FTB service, there are a number of other benefits including a strong commitment to continuous professional development.
The CAMHS Consultant posts are currently based at Washwood Heath Centre Hub for the East community mental health team.
You will have a central role within an MDT context in providing medical leadership, delivering psychiatric assessment and treatment for a caseload of children, adolescents and their families with variable degree of complexity associated with attachment difficulties, mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as contribute to providing psychiatric & medical risk management in the community.
On a day-to-day basis, as Consultant psychiatrist, you will be part of the FTB integrated core community Mental Health Services. You will have a close working relationship on clinical matters with multidisciplinary teams and provide important liaison with other doctors in primary and secondary care.
You will offer specialist consultation and peer supervision to Senior Mental Health Practitioners within the clinical team including the supervision of junior doctors. On a more strategic level, you will relate to the leadership and management structures of FTB.
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About us
SPECIFIC KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
CLINICAL AND MEDICAL LEADERSHIP
To hold overall clinical/medical responsibility and review patients at a frequency according to their clinical need and risks.
To provide psychiatric leadership to the multidisciplinary teams and clinical leadership in collaboration with the team leaders. The Consultant Psychiatrists responsibilities include treatment planning and regular reviews through outpatient contact or a multidisciplinary care programme approach that comprehensively address patients bio-psychosocial needs.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
All doctors are expected to devote some time to supporting professional activities, teaching, research and personal development.
There is an expectation that you will remain in good standing for continuing professional development (CPD) with the Royal College of Psychiatrists as part of revalidation. You will make your own local arrangements for Peer Review Group meetings in line with Royal College recommendations on CPD and will develop a Personal Development Plan (PDP) agreed with your Peer Group and Appraiser.
The Trust supports CPD activities, including study leave arrangements and associated budget. You are entitled to 30 days over a 3-year period. A robust cover system is in place and is in liaison with other FTB consultants and junior medical staff.
Mentoring is available both through line management and other senior managers or clinicians in the Trust. Some staff have coaching training.
You will be expected to take responsibility for your continuing medical education within statutory limits. This will include keeping up to date with Trust mandatory and statutory training. Please read through the JD for further information
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