Consultant Psychiatrist CAMH (Central)NHS

Job summary

The principal purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, evidence based Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service across Community CAMHS pathways, providing expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people with a broad range of mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and ensuring full compliance with national standards, NHS policy, and CPFT governance.

Main duties of the job

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure it accurately reflects the clinical responsibilities, service needs, and strategic priorities of the CAMHS Directorate.The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist providing specialist clinical input within Central CAMHS and the wider Children, Young People & Families (CYPF) Directorate.

Job description

Main Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

1. Clinical leadershipa. Provide senior medical leadership to the North and/or Central CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.b. Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.c. Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.d. Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards. There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.

2. Direct clinical carea. Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway includingb. Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.c. Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.d. Participate in the CYPF directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at additional 1PA. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.

3. System flowa. Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.b. Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission

4. Clinical Governance and Qualitya. Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.b. Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust widec. Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.d. Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trusts clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.e. Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.

5. Workforce, Training & Supervisiona. Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.b. Upskill and support junior colleagues and teams CPD programme for other disciplinesc. Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.

6. Strategic Developmenta. Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs led service to young people across the trust

Training & Development To participate in regular peer supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy. To participate in the Trusts annual appraisal and revalidation process. To attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so. 2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional 1.0 PA (or pro-rata) is allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holders professional development and the Trusts ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services. There is a termly CPD event. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.

Quality & Patient Safety Protection of Children & Vulnerable Adults To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Implementation of NICE guidance and other statutory / best practice guidelines. (if appropriate) Infection Control - To be responsible for the prevention and control of infection. Incident reporting - To report any incidents of harm or near miss in line with the Trusts incident reporting policy ensuring appropriate actions are taken to reduce the risk of reoccurrence. To contribute to the identification, management and reduction of risk in the area of responsibility. To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience. To ensure monitoring of quality and compliance with standards is demonstrable within the service on an ongoing basis. To be aware of the responsibility of all employees to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients/ clients, visitors and staff.

General To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this. To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these. To comply at all times with the Trusts Information Governance related policies. Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

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