Job summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Inpatient and Young People Home Treatment Team.

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

BASE: Brookside Unit, 107a Barley Lane, Goodmayes, Ilford. IG3 8XQ

Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young persons Home Treatment Team.

This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.

The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trusts Values in their day-to-day work.

We are kind

We are respectful

We work with our communities

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit and home treatment team. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate.

On-call responsibilities:

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT.The on-call will cover service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems.

The on-call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently 1:13 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year.

About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Job responsibilities
Brookside Services include the Brookside Unit (general acute mixed ward, 15 beds) and the Young People’s Home treatment Team (up to 25 patients supported in the community). The services provide assessment and treatment of all mental disorders associated with the child and adolescent population between the ages of 12 to 18 years. You will join another full-time consultant and share responsibility for the service. The inpatient ward and the YPHTT have separate managers and supported by a modern matron. Both pathways benefit from occupational therapy, psychology, and safeguarding input onto the ward. Supervision arrangements for the resident and SAS doctor will be the responsibility of the consultants in the team.

General Duties

To organise and prioritise your own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.

To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.

To ensure effective risk management at clinical and team level.

Clinical skills

To assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.

To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.

To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification

Experience
Essential

• Extensive knowledge and experience working with children and young people, and the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions in this age group.
• An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.
• An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.

Desirable

• Clear thoughts on how to involve service users and carers in service development and quality improvement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.