Consultant Child and Adolescence Psychiatrist UCT/Paediatric Liaison

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (8PAs) in Westminster CAMHS Liaison Team (5PAs) and Urgent Care Team (3 PAs)

Permanent, Part-Time (8PAs)

We are currently inviting applications for a 8 PA Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to work within the Paediatric Liasion and Urgent Care Team of Westminster CAMHS (CNWL) based at St Mary's Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated child and adolescent psychiatrist with creative ideas for service development, keen to work with dynamic and passionate consultant colleagues and MDT clinicians and to collaborate with paediatricians, schools, childrens services and allied health professionals.

You will be working alongside friendly and supportive consultant colleagues. St Mary's Hospital is a highly renowned hospital and the major acute hospital for north west London. The hospital provides care across a wide range of specialties and runs one of four major trauma centres in London in addition to its 24/7 A&E department.

You will be working in collaboration with an innovative and outstanding paediatric service in St Mary's Hospital. There are opportunities for teaching and training, for example as part of the higher training scheme and strong links with Imperial College London to develop research interests.

Further Information & Arrangements to visit

Dr Monica Ramirez-Reinoso

Lead Consultant Westminster CAMHS

E: monica.ramirezreinoso@nhs.net, T: 02033173599

Main duties of the job

This is a newly created post which includes five paediatric liaison programmed activities for consultation-liaison to St Mary's Hospital, and seeing local children and adolescent in the outpatient service, and crucially to lead on the development of a more comprehensive hospital liaison service for under 18-year olds in collaboration with the Imperial College NHS Trust.

The post will also provide daily consultant leadership to the Urgent Care Team (UCT) for Westminster CAMHS. This in an 8 PAs post, thus it includes 5 Paediatric Liaison PAs, and 3 PAs in the Urgent Care Team.Junior medical input to the Westminster UCT is accessed via the duty rota at Westminster CAMHS, which includes two speciality trainees and two core trainees. They may also input to the paediatric liaison team.

The base is at Westminster CAMHS, but the clinical work may be done at St Mary's Hospital. The post holder will provide daily consultant input to support the Urgent Care Team covering St Mary's Hospital, as well as support the daytime consultant rota for Wesminster CAMHS (pro rata). This role will be supported by the other consultants in the service during leave periods.

They will also contribute to the CAMHS OOH consultant rota for CNWL. The postholder will be expected to liaise with NHS England, Commissioners and Tier 4 services when referral to Tier 4 is indicated and to liaise with Tier 4 services and contribute to CRAFT, CETR and CPA meetings.

About us

"Central and North West London (CNWL) specialises 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: Westminster CAMHS has a Lead Psychiatrist, Therapies lead and team manager who work closely with the inner 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 Westminster 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 behaviour, systemic, CBT, IPT-A, DBT, psycho-dynamic and group therapies as well as psychopharmacological approaches. Westminster 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 business meeting, a monthly local consultants meeting and a monthly senior management meeting which the postholder will be part of.

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year 3% on call (1in15) and £2162 London Weighting per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

333-G-CA-C-0020

Job locations

Westminster CAMHS Paediatric Liaison Service

7a Woodfield Road

London

W9 2NW

Job description

Job responsibilities

General duties

To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients
To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and maintain accurate, contemporaneous medical notes in line with the Trust record keeping policy
To participate in the service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service
To attend and participate in the internal CPD activities and maintain up to date CPD activities
To attend the monthly consultant meetings and other relevant professional meetings
To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12 (2) and AC approval
To participate annually in job plan review
To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, sharing with other consultant colleagues the medical contribution to management
To comply with the Trusts agreed policies and procedure

Clinical and management duties

To provide leadership in the paediatric liaison team in Westminster CAMHS.
To provide the continuity of consultant input for young people admitted to paediatric and medical wards and, if required, be the responsible clinician (RC)
To contribute to the paediatric liaison service for children and adolescents with based at St Mary Hospital.
To provide consultation and medical input to children and adolescents from the Westminster area with physical illness/injury and significant mental health problems, and medically unexplained symptoms, or other relevant problems, who may be patients of St Marys Hospital or other paediatric Hospitals or Departments such as GOSH, Evelina Hospital etc, who may be seen in the Westminster CAMHS clinic currently at Woodfield Road.
To contribute to the further development of the paediatric liaison service
The appointee will take a consultant lead role in the local urgent care team
To provide consultation and medical input to the weekly clinical review meeting for UCT
To provide psychiatric assessments when required and support the Urgent Care Team with emergency work at St Marys Hospital, 7 day follow ups, and any short-term interventions offered.
To lead on the development of the Tier 3.5 service (intensive short-term crisis intervention) for Westminster
To contribute to the monthly senior management meetings for the local CAMHS as well as the crisis pathway.
To take a lead role, together with the urgent care team lead, in developing joint crisis pathways and protocols with the acute hospital
To lead on the development of interface working between UCT and other CAMHS sub-teams as well as ACTS (Adolescent Community Treatment Service)
To facilitate monthly consultation group with the out-of-hours team together with other UCT consultants
To attend interface meetings with the St Marys Hospital emergency department and contribute to professional meetings for young people at the hospital, including bed escalation meetings.
To provide clinical supervision to psychiatry trainees and speciality doctors contributing to the work of the UCT, paediatric liaison service, and other Westminster Teams when required.
To contribute (pro rata) to Westminster CAMHS consultant duty rota within working hours.
To offer teaching to CAMHS colleagues and trainees and medical students
To work together and support the team lead in providing activity reports and contribute to providing presentation of the work to senior management meetings and commissioners. This may include the North West London Provider Collaborative and the CNWL CAMHS Central Care Quality and Performance Management Group (CQPMG)

Job description

Job responsibilities

General duties

To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients
To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and maintain accurate, contemporaneous medical notes in line with the Trust record keeping policy
To participate in the service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service
To attend and participate in the internal CPD activities and maintain up to date CPD activities
To attend the monthly consultant meetings and other relevant professional meetings
To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12 (2) and AC approval
To participate annually in job plan review
To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, sharing with other consultant colleagues the medical contribution to management
To comply with the Trusts agreed policies and procedure

Clinical and management duties

To provide leadership in the paediatric liaison team in Westminster CAMHS.
To provide the continuity of consultant input for young people admitted to paediatric and medical wards and, if required, be the responsible clinician (RC)
To contribute to the paediatric liaison service for children and adolescents with based at St Mary Hospital.
To provide consultation and medical input to children and adolescents from the Westminster area with physical illness/injury and significant mental health problems, and medically unexplained symptoms, or other relevant problems, who may be patients of St Marys Hospital or other paediatric Hospitals or Departments such as GOSH, Evelina Hospital etc, who may be seen in the Westminster CAMHS clinic currently at Woodfield Road.
To contribute to the further development of the paediatric liaison service
The appointee will take a consultant lead role in the local urgent care team
To provide consultation and medical input to the weekly clinical review meeting for UCT
To provide psychiatric assessments when required and support the Urgent Care Team with emergency work at St Marys Hospital, 7 day follow ups, and any short-term interventions offered.
To lead on the development of the Tier 3.5 service (intensive short-term crisis intervention) for Westminster
To contribute to the monthly senior management meetings for the local CAMHS as well as the crisis pathway.
To take a lead role, together with the urgent care team lead, in developing joint crisis pathways and protocols with the acute hospital
To lead on the development of interface working between UCT and other CAMHS sub-teams as well as ACTS (Adolescent Community Treatment Service)
To facilitate monthly consultation group with the out-of-hours team together with other UCT consultants
To attend interface meetings with the St Marys Hospital emergency department and contribute to professional meetings for young people at the hospital, including bed escalation meetings.
To provide clinical supervision to psychiatry trainees and speciality doctors contributing to the work of the UCT, paediatric liaison service, and other Westminster Teams when required.
To contribute (pro rata) to Westminster CAMHS consultant duty rota within working hours.
To offer teaching to CAMHS colleagues and trainees and medical students
To work together and support the team lead in providing activity reports and contribute to providing presentation of the work to senior management meetings and commissioners. This may include the North West London Provider Collaborative and the CNWL CAMHS Central Care Quality and Performance Management Group (CQPMG)

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications And Training

Essential

Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a licence to practice
Section 12 MHA Approved
Approved Clinician status (or undertaking to obtain this on taking up the post
Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)

Desirable

An additional post graduate qualification of relevance to working with children and adolescents
MRCPsych

Experience, Skills and Abilities

Essential

Competence in psycho- pharmacology and also non- medication therapeutic approaches
Experience and training in the assessment and management of cases with complex presentations with high risk
Knowledge of Clinical Governance/Care Quality
Able to participate in Medical Audit and Quality Improvement
Experience of teaching and supervision of junior staff and other disciplines

Desirable

Management Training
Experience of Research
Experience in Paediatrics
Paediatric liaison experience

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential

Excellent communication and empathic skills
Demonstrable leadership skills
Experience of team working
Sound organisational skills
Ability to work on own initiative
Cultural Sensitivity and ability to work in multi ethnic environment

Other

Desirable

Full UK care driving licence

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications And Training

Essential

Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a licence to practice
Section 12 MHA Approved
Approved Clinician status (or undertaking to obtain this on taking up the post
Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)

Desirable

An additional post graduate qualification of relevance to working with children and adolescents
MRCPsych

Experience, Skills and Abilities

Essential

Competence in psycho- pharmacology and also non- medication therapeutic approaches
Experience and training in the assessment and management of cases with complex presentations with high risk
Knowledge of Clinical Governance/Care Quality
Able to participate in Medical Audit and Quality Improvement
Experience of teaching and supervision of junior staff and other disciplines

Desirable

Management Training
Experience of Research
Experience in Paediatrics
Paediatric liaison experience

Personal Skills & Qualities

Essential

Excellent communication and empathic skills
Demonstrable leadership skills
Experience of team working
Sound organisational skills
Ability to work on own initiative
Cultural Sensitivity and ability to work in multi ethnic environment

Other

Desirable

Full UK care driving licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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