Specialty doctor

Overview

This is a fixed-term specialty doctor post at Collingham Child and Family Centre. The post is for 8PAs to support the existing psychiatry team with assessments, diagnosis, risk reviews, prescribing and medication management, for inpatient children and new referrals. The post holder will be working alongside and be supported by the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, specialty doctor and resident doctor at Collingham Child and Family Centre.

The role of the specialty doctor is to support the Consultant to provide dedicated, high quality medical care and treatment for young people and their families presenting with a range of mental health issues, neurodevelopmental conditions and/or developmental trauma.

• To undertake psychiatry assessments of young people and families referred to Collingham Child and Family Centre, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.
• To contribute to the clerking and assessment on admission for inpatient children, including consideration of the legal framework for admission, mental state examination, risk assessment and physical examination of the child.
• To provide medication treatment and therapy appropriate to level of training and experience under the supervision of the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
• To contribute to assessments under the Mental Health Act.
• To contribute to the discharge process of inpatient children, including use of outcome measures, clinical coding and ensuring safe discharge planning.
• To communicate medical/psychiatry issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and contribute to MDT meetings (e.g. ward rounds, CPA/review meetings).
• To liaise with community professionals (e.g. community CAMHS, school, social care, others) and with medical colleagues (e.g. GPs, A&E, Paediatricians, etc), and attend professionals' meetings, as required per the child's care.
• To ensure good record keeping and clinical documentation of assessments, interventions, and liaison, as per GMC guidance, and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
• To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and research.
• To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.
• Duty work:
  The post holder will be part of a psychiatry rota for Collingham Child and Family Centre together with the resident doctors to ensure psychiatry cover during weekdays (9am-5pm).
• On-call:
  There are no out-of-hours on-call requirements linked to this post. There may be opportunities to join a resident doctor out-of-hours rota depending on experience.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation.

We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. CNWL specialises in caring for people with a wide range of mental and physical health needs and is one of the largest mental health trusts in England.

Each CAMHS service has its own local management structure:

Collingham Child and Family Centre CNWL NHS inpatient care team within the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea provides mental and emotional health services to children under the age of 13, their families and carers experiencing and needing help with thoughts, feelings, difficult experiences, emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties in family life, school or the wider world. These include psychosis, affective disorders, developmental disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, self harm and disordered eating.

• Part Time 8PAs, 6 Months Fixed Term.
• Relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles.
• For more information on these and other benefits, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
• We offer opportunities to participate in teaching and professional development.
• Safeguarding: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is…