Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist

CONTRACT: 8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)

Flexible working available

BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ

This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Barking and Dagenham CAMHS Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ.

This post is for 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

This is part of a well‑established full‑time post, currently partly covered by another consultant working less than full time. Significant transformation has already taken place within Barking and Dagenham Community CAMHS, with further developments ongoing. This post is intended to complement the current less than full‑time consultant.

The postholder will be part of the CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems.

The on-call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently 1:12 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement. Once this post is filled, the rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year.

The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Barking and Dagenham.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant 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 three other (2.6 WTE) CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, 0.4wte Academic Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrists, two substantive Specialty Doctors, and 1 Core Trainee. The post holder will work closely with the community Paediatric Team to support a fully integrated all age children’s service. You will share supervision for junior members of the team with your consultant colleague.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Manjari Tanwar Job title: Deputy Chief Medical Officer Email address: Manjari.Tanwar@nelft.nhs.uk

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