Working for our organisation

Central and North West London (CNWL) specializes 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: Harrow CAMHS has a Lead Psychiatrist, Therapies lead, and team manager who work closely with the outer boroughs service manager. Each sub-team has a psychiatry and therapy lead, and they, together with the team and service manager, form the local senior management team which meets monthly. The postholder will be part of the SMT. The Harrow CAMHS team is well established and staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible, and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using a range of therapeutic interventions including behavior, systemic, CBT, IPT-A, DBT, psycho-dynamic, and group therapies as well as psychopharmacological approaches. Harrow CAMHS is a Tier 3 service, accepting referrals from GPs, paediatrics, schools, and Children’s Services. The service has active service user groups for young people and parents. The team has a monthly CPD session and local care quality meeting, a doctors meeting twice a month which includes peer group case discussions, a weekly local consultants meeting, and a monthly senior management meeting which the postholder will be part of.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Clinical Work

• To undertake assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans, and provide interventions/treatments.
• To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.
• To provide treatment and therapy appropriate to the level of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist.
• To attend service-wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion.
• To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases, and opportunities for audit.
• To participate in the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.
• To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
• To participate in continuing professional development.
• To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.
• To provide clinical care for other patients if their allocated doctor/case manager is unavailable.
• To gain experience of some psychological treatments.
• To participate in clinical audit, quality improvement, and research.
• To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications And Training

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration
• GMC Licence to Practise
• Completed at least 4 years full-time post-graduate training (or its equivalent on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed-term trainee or have equivalent experience and competencies

Desirable criteria

• Appropriate postgraduate qualifications
• MRCPsych
• Section 12 MHA Approved

Experience, Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Good knowledge of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Experience in psychopharmacology as applicable to CAMHS
• Experience of Mental Health Act as applicable to CAMHS
• Experience in a variety of therapies

Desirable criteria

• 3-DI or ADI trained
• ADOS trained
• Neurodevelopmental Experience

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and empathic skills
• Experience of team working
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Highly motivated and able to finish tasks on time