Job Description

National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and skilled specialty doctor to join the renowned National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorders Clinic. This is a new position funded through additional commissioner investment in the service.



This is a permanent part time Specialty Doctor post in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry within the national and specialist services for child and adolescent mental health. The National and Specialist OCD, BDD and related disorders service is part of the Kings Maudsley Partnership, which is Europe's largest department and clinical practice and research focussing on child and adolescent mental health.



Job description is pending Royal College approval

Clinical Duties :

The postholder will assist in the assessment and management of children referred to National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Service.



The postholder will join colleagues and co-work cases where necessary; undertake physical examinations as required; order investigations e.g. blood results and ECGs, and check and act on their results.



They will also be responsible for prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medication.



The postholder would be expected to have a small caseload of patients from the team. These may be seen for monitoring of medication, mental state, psychiatric, or physical risk. The post holder will play a key role in liaising with local mental health team, General Practitioners and Paediatric colleagues , as well as other agencies such as social care and education in order to ensure we offer rounded interagency care.



Please refer to the job description for further details.



Benefits



We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service. Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing. Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes. Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars. Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites. NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services Wellbeing events Long service awards Cycle to work scheme Season ticket loan Childcare vouchers Staff restaurants

The main responsibilities of the post include:

Clinical Governance:

The Trust has established multi-disciplinary clinical governance mechanisms that the postholder will be expected to participate in including evidence-based practice implementation of local policies and procedures that support best practice - both uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary. Risk management processes to ensure clinical and non-clinical risks are identified and actions taken as appropriate.

Audit and Quality Improvement:

The Trust undertakes regular quality improvement and clinical audit of their activities, and the appointee will be expected to take part in this program, and further develop specific projects and associated data collection relevant to their work and their department



Ensuring that electronic patient clinical records relating to post holder's work are well maintained and meet Trust standards for documentation and communication with referrers and users are met.

Contribute to the development of policies and procedures to support good practice and ensure that appropriate high-quality clinical services are delivered.



Ensure that policies and procedures are implemented to safeguard and protect children and young people, and where necessary implement the CPA process.



Promote good links with GPs, nursing and medical colleagues, local CAMH services, schools.



Provide a service which promotes diversity, meets the needs of service users from diverse ethnic, cultural and religious traditions, is accessible and sensitive to needs relating to disability, gender, and sexual orientation.



Collate activity information as requested to meet the demands of Performance Management and Service Planning.



Apply quality standards to all work undertaken, in line with Trust Clinical Governance policies.



Please refer to the job description for further details.