CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist

Job summary

Consultant Psychiatrist, Full time, Permanent, Eating Disorder service/ Dudley Crisis Role (combined)

You are invited to join a friendly and motivated Medical team within the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Your post will be based at Elms Health Centre Halesowen (Crisis) Ladies Walk Sedgley Dudley (Eating Disorder Service).

The duties of the post holder will include providing eating disorder psychiatric service to Children and Adolescents with eating disorder across Dudley and Walsall. This will include looking after outpatients and community patients covering a population around 500,000.

The post holder will be expected to work closely with the Community Eating Disorder MDT within Dudley and Walsall. The Post holder will be expected to have an active role in development of the service.

The Consultant in CAMHS crisis and home treatment team will be expected to provide medical expertise and support the existing staff in the assessment, diagnosis and management of children and adolescents presenting with mental health problems in the designated local hospitals and to the crisis home treatment team.

Number of programmed activities Dudley CAMHS Crisis : 5 sessions.Dudley and Walsall CAMHS Eating Disorder: 6 sessions

Main duties of the job

The Eating disorder service/crisis Consultant role is to provide medical expertise and support to existing staff in assessment, diagnosis, management of Children and Adolescents with Eating disorders/ Crisis Home Treatment Team .The consultant will provide support to clinical colleagues in deciding appropriate interventions for patients referred to the service. Including seeing patients referred, working with the care pathways, specialist clinics, to provide input to pathways, interfacing with them. To involve providing direct interventions, liaising with multiple agencies, involve collaborative work with agencies providing a seamless pathway for patients. The consultant would be expected to develop a good working relationship with core CAMHS team, CRHT Team and Paediatric consultants in acute hospital, regional specialist ED services and educational and social care services and would be expected to work closely with inpatient Eating Disorder /Crisis Home Treatment service. The consultant would need to work closely with dietician and interface with GP, acute ward to manage the physical health of the patient to ensure that patient is kept safe,liaison with wards and facilitating discharge through collaborative working with primary care, community services, Social Care, private providers and the voluntary sector to provide a seamless pathway for children and adolescents.

About us

Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.