NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Community Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment team
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Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist
Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment Team
Contract
10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
Base
Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX
Salary
£113,565 - £150,569
Post And Specialty
This is a new post, created following the receipt of additional resources from commissioners to provide substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team. It aims to offer high-quality preventative care and reduce the time CAMHS spends in A&E. Transformation within Essex's Community CAMHS Services is ongoing.
This is a substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The post is currently vacant, and recruitment is sought as soon as possible.
Flexible working, job share, or fixed term requests will be considered.
Accountability
The postholder will be professionally and clinically accountable to the Associate Medical Director for Essex (currently Dr Viviana Porcari) and operationally accountable to both the Associate Medical Director and the Director of Children Services Essex & Kent, via the Assistant Director (currently Tina Russell).
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for organizing and prioritizing own and others' workloads.
- Deputize when required in the team manager's absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
- Have organizational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- Provide accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- 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.
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Clinical Skills
- Act as an autonomous, registered practitioner legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions.
- Assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients.
- Initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- Provide patients and relatives with information and education, ensuring meaningful choices.
- Ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Training & Supervision
- Act as a clinical supervisor to junior colleagues, providing effective education and facilitating their development.
- Ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
- Undertake and assist in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- Undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies.
Education
- Provide in-service training to junior doctors and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to the teaching of Medical Students and Trainee Doctors.
- Engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.
Administration
- Follow good medical practice standards in documenting all assessments of patients.
- Provide reports on time.
- Ensure that all letters and summaries are checked and sent promptly to referring GPs, other colleagues, and agencies.
- Keep accurate and up-to-date records of all clinical activity.
- Have good IT skills and use the Trust’s electronic case record system.
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Management
- Support the team manager and other consultants in managing members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Act as line manager to all medical members within the team.
- Address all areas of clinical governance within the multidisciplinary team.
Leadership
- Participate in the development of an effective team and productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
- Promote professional integrated health working, internally and externally.
- Facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture.
- Participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- Advise, encourage, and share knowledge utilizing the latest research and practice development.
- Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
- Lead compassionately on the evolution of services.
- Engage patients and staff in the development of services.
Communication
- Have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
Who To Contact For Informal Inquiries
- Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass - Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
- Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari - Vivana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk
- Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk
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