NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor
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JOB TITLE: Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
This post is for a community CAMHS Specialty Doctor position in the Redbridge CAMHS Community Team, based at the Redbridge Child Development Centre, Grovelands, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex, RM6 4XH.
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 is to support their team, department, and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work with our communities
A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Redbridge’s Community CAMHS Services. This post will soon be vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
This is a substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 8 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
On-call Responsibilities
The post does not currently include on call responsibilities.
The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs across Redbridge.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. Together with the two consultants (Dr Ragini Bahry and Naila Saleem, the postholder will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside two CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, 1 CAMHS SAS doctors, and a Core Trainee within the service and will share supervision requirements for trainees with them.
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There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services.
We receive Year 4 students from Barts and London Hospital every year.
The postholder will have access to designated office space, based at Grovelands in Chadwell Heath.
1.2 Main Responsibilities
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
- To deputise when required in the team consultant’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Clinical Skills
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
- Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
- To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
- To be able 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.
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Training & Supervision
- To act as mentor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
- Ensure junior colleagues are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
- To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
- To support new staff and their integration within the team.
- To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
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