Whittington Health
Senior Clinical Fellow - CAMHS Psychiatrist
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About the Role
This is a role to support the psychiatry team in Islington CAMHS. The role has emerged due to a vacancy in one of the CAMHS Senior trainee (ST) posts allocated in Islington CAMHS, part of the GOSH rotation, from February 2025. It is a 6 months fixed term role and will be suitable for those who wish to obtain additional experience in child & adolescent psychiatry, and those who are considering a career in child and adolescent psychiatry and would like to gain skills and competences in the discipline.
This is a full time post but applications for less than full time roles, or job shares, will also be considered.
Responsibilities
The post holder will join three consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists (2.7WTE). The service hosts three core trainees in psychiatry from the Royal Free and UCLH rotation. Although this is a trust grade post, the clinical duties and teaching components are the same as in our deanery funded training posts. The post holder will receive weekly supervision by a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and will be supported in developing their clinical skills and expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
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Clinical Duties
- Provide psychiatric assessment, including risk assessment, shared decision-making with patients/parents/carers and treatment for children and young people referred to the service.
- Work in partnership with young people, parents and carers to develop effective, evidence based, management plans with ongoing review of the formulation and of these management plans.
- Provide psychiatric consultation, advice, and appropriate support to colleagues within CAMHS as well as to professionals in the wider network of the child, young person or family.
- Clinical liaison with clinicians in other community and specialist children’s services as well as with specialist inpatient or other residential services.
- Support and develop links between the team, primary care, other local services and schools.
- Be responsive and flexible in seeing children and families for urgent assessment where there is risk of self-harm or suspicion of severe mental illness.
- Contribute to quality improvement through audit/ QI of both psychiatric and multidisciplinary team work.
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About Us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Aspa Paspali
- Job title: Clinical Lead Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address: aspa.paspali@nhs.net
Daryl Parker
Joint Head of Islington CAMHS
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