Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Getting More Help - Keynsham

Would you like to work for a Trust which has been awarded Global Digital Exemplar Status and be part of our work on the development of mental health related Apps for young people?

We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join us at our Bath & NE Somerset (BANES) Community CAMHS Team where you will have an active leadership role and medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families.

With your expertise in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, you'll join our Getting More Help multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working in close liaison with our Getting Help team which operates as a single point of access for CAMHS, screening referrals from GPs, Paediatricians and Education and Social Services.

We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria).

Could this be the next step in your career? Come and join one of the UK's leading mental health Trusts and be part of a successful service implementing an exciting and innovative service model for children and young people’s mental health.

• Attend regular MDTs and provide clinical leadership and medical input to the team.
• Responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by them.
• With other consultants in the team, have responsibility for the clinical governance of the team as clinical leads for the team.
• Work in partnership within the multidisciplinary team for the clinical management of patients. This will include risk assessment, the assessment of the needs of carers, and the development of services to meet the needs of patients and families for whom the team is responsible.
• Clinical leadership responsibility to ensure excellent systems of clinical governance so that their team provides high quality, safe care to patients. Consultants are expected to encourage a Restorative Just and Learning Culture of Learning, participate in safety huddles and investigations and participate in identifying improvements in practice where appropriate.
• Participate in the BSW Consultant on call rota (currently 1 in 11 with prospective cover, paid at category A banded at 3% on call availability supplement. There is an additional 0.5PA per month (pro rata) paid in recognition of emergency work arising from out of hours).