CAMHS Consultant inScunthorpe inScunthorpe PUBLISHED
THU 2 JAN 2025
Key responsibilities include offering psychiatric leadership, providing consultations, formulating care plans, and assessing complex cases or those at high risk. The Consultant will also work closely with the MDT and liaise with external agencies to ensure comprehensive support for young patients, with a focus on maintaining their well-being within established child protection and care frameworks.
The post holder will be working with a large multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers and psychologists, psychotherapists and creative therapists. The service has a CAMHS Learning Disability pathway and psychiatry input on the pathway is provided by a CAMHS LD Consultant.
The service receives approximately 3704 referrals per year, new and re-referrals and 2933 records where a referral allocation exists for 2022. All new cases are seen first by one of the Multidisciplinary team for a mental health assessment. Following this the young person may be seen for a secondary assessment by a psychiatrist where there are concerns e.g., eating disorder, psychosis (Under 16 year) moderate or severe depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, severe self-harm or complex cases. In all cases where a psychiatric opinion is sought the cases will be brought to one of three Multi-Disciplinary (MDT) weekly meetings.
It is expected that the Consultant will have approximately 2-3 patient related contacts per clinical session. These may include review appointments (face to face or remotely), therapeutic treatment appointment, Multiagency meetings or CPA reviews, consultations with other clinicians or professionals about specific patients, clinical supervision regarding specific patients.
The specific duties include:
o The post holder will, along with their Consultant colleagues, provide Consultant psychiatric leadership to the CAMHS Service.
o The post holder will offer regular consultation to the multi-disciplinary team both through the team MDT case discussions and on an individual basis.
o The post holder will assess, contribute to the formulation of care plans and treat where appropriate young people and their families where there is a question of psychiatric diagnosis or where the case is very complex.
o The post holder may also be required to assess in cases of high risk.
o The post holder will work with the MDT in the ongoing treatment and management of cases where Consultant Psychiatric skills are required.
o The post holder will liaise with other agencies and professionals to ensure the wellbeing of the young person. This includes the processes of Child Protection and the Care Programme Approach when appropriate.
o All cases will be case managed by a member of the MDT.
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