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About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Darwin
Accepting applications until: 21-May-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 21-May-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Darwin Centre for Young People, Ida Darwin Hospital
- Town
- Fulbourn, Cambridge
- Postcode
- CB21 5EE
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Interview date
- 28/05/2024
Job overview
Applications are invited for a WTE consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join the Darwin Centre for Young People, a Tier 4 adolescent inpatient unit based in Cambridge. The unit offers assessment and treatment to young people, aged 13-17 (until 18th birthday), experiencing psychiatric, emotional, or psychological problems that interfere with their social, interpersonal, and educational functioning.
Cambridge Children’s Hospital
The vision of Cambridge Children’s Hospital is to deliver a whole child, whole family approach to care. Bringing the treatment of mental and physical health together, under one roof, alongside world-leading research, pioneering the way in which healthcare is delivered. CPFT is partnering with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and the University of Cambridge to achieve this exciting ambition. This role will play an exciting part in being able to shape the design and model of care for the new Children’s Hospital including the potential opportunity to take on a shared lead role representing CPFT as part of the formal project.
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The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the Darwin Centre for Young People working closely with MDT and nursing team colleagues delivering the service in line with the NHS England Service specification. The post-holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist clinical assessment and treatment to adolescents with acute, high risk psychiatric disorders referred for admission to an inpatient ward. This may include telephone consultation to colleagues within and outside the CPFT, completion of access assessments from paperwork, pre-admission assessments, and rapid assessment after crisis admission.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
THE POST
- The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the Darwin Centre for Young People working closely with MDT and nursing team colleagues delivering the service in line with the NHS England Service specification.
- The post-holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist clinical assessment and treatment to adolescents with acute, high risk psychiatric disorders referred for admission to an inpatient ward. This may include telephone consultation to colleagues within and outside the CPFT, completion of access assessments from paperwork, pre-admission assessments, and rapid assessment after crisis admission.
- To be eligible to apply for or already approved under Section 12 MHA
- To be eligible to train for or already qualified as an Approved Clinician.
- Attend and help shape the team meetings in order to ensure robust clinical governance activities are maintained.
- Link with Intensive Support Team and community teams to formulate discharge plans.
- 2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, teaching, training, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional one PA (or pro-rata) is also allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holder’s professional development and the Trust’s ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services. There is a termly CPD event. Examples of SPA activity include working within the Trust’s governance structure e.g. participation in the Ethics Committee, Clinical Audit and NICE Implementation Group, the Medicines Management Committee or fulfilling the role of Lead Clinician. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.
- Training of Core and Specialty trainees including as their Consultant Supervisor. The Darwin Centre is a placement for CPFT’s Core Training scheme and Specialty Trainees in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry who are on the East of England Higher Training Scheme
- Contribute to the daytime Duty Consultant rota. Together with consultant colleagues and ensure Consultant cover is available as needed to back up the Duty Practitioner.
- Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 9) providing Child Psychiatry, non-residential, third tier, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners. This is a Trust-wide rota covering all of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the three Tier 4 units and the three acute hospitals. There is an expectation that phone calls will be responded to promptly and that on occasion consultants may be required to attend a hospital site to assess patients.
- Contribute to the teaching and training of STs, CTs, medical students and MDT members.
- Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people on an occasional basis and attend to any safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
- Maintain high quality clinical records and otherwise participate in the administrative duties associated with patient care and the running of the service.
- Collaborate with medical colleagues to maintain the service in the absence of departmental colleagues due to annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education/Qualificationss
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration and licence to practice
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPsych or equivalent qualification/certification
- Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to obtain training
- Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training
Desirable criteria
- Therapeutic qualification
Entry Criteria or the grade
Essential criteria
- Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or within 6 months of attainment of CCT at time of interview.
- Shall have equivalent experience and competencies as recognised by GMC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
Desirable criteria
- A range of specialist and sub-specialist experiences relevant to this post
- Previous experience of leadership in an inpatient setting
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Management skills.
- Ability to take a clinical lead.
Desirable criteria
- Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, parenting programmes
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Venkat Reddy
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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