Job summary
SPFT have an exciting opportunity for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Trust in a Clinical Director Role covering the Kent and Sussex Provider Collaborative, and the Wessex and Dorset CAMHS Provider Collaborative.
The post holder will clinically lead with the Programme Director and the Provider Collaborative team in delivering an effective service, to ensure safe and effective care pathways are in place for Child and Adolescent service users from the Kent and Sussex, and Wessex and Dorset region, in mental health care inpatient settings within the NHS and Independent sector.
The Clinical Director role will have opportunities to input to changes at a national and regional level. You will also be pivotal in building and facilitating relationships/partnerships, and bringing clinicians together to drive innovation whilst putting patients at the centre of all we do within the collaborative.
Base would be flexible across our Trust sites and will be agreed on appointment.
Please note this role attracts a responsibility payment of £10,000 per annum.
The Job Description and Person Specification has been approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS Provider Collaborative as a Clinical Director supporting effective patient pathways across a wide footprint. This role will play an important part of providingclinical perspective to the commissioning function of the Provider Collaborative for CAMHS.
The post holder will need to monitor and inform regional and national developments relating to CAMHS, especially coeval bed capacity changes, current patient experience, and clinical and functional outcomes.
With the Programme Director, partner organisations and stakeholders, scope the need for specialist services (whether inpatient or community) pursuant to the aims of the Collaborative. You will also work with the Programme Director on mediating any disputes between the partners and stakeholders, taking a lead when these disputes involve clinical matters.
You will establish and monitor pre-admission, admission, bed occupancy, discharge and re-admission data collection and management systems for Kent/Sussex and Wessex and Dorset. The post holder will also be a member of the relevant Provider Collaborative Boards, and attendance at meetings is expected.
The role is also likely to involve attendance at events outside the organisation so the you will need to ensure you maintain your knowledge of national best practice and keep abreast of developments in the national Provider Collaborative process.
About us
Sussex Partnership provide specialist NHS mental health and learning disability services in South East England. We care for people at home, in hospital and through our community services. Our services are for people of all ages across Sussex. We also provide specialist mental health services for children and young people in Hampshire. Our services are rated 'good' by the Care Quality Commission and 'outstanding' for caring.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
- Serve as a clinical advisor to CAMHs partner services that offer community and inpatient psychiatric care.
- Advise on hospital admission avoidance plans for young people at risk of both psychiatric and general hospital admission.
- Help develop and implement discharge plans for young people admitted to hospital, and repatriation strategies for young people admitted outside of Hampshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex.
- Further step-down and discharge from inpatient care, for example from high dependency or intensive care beds (High Dependency/Intensive Care/Low-Medium Secure) to General Adolescent bed or to the community, when young people no longer meet the criteria for admission or transition to other services.
- Assess young people admitted to hospital (whether in Wessex/Dorset. Kent/Sussex or out-of-area) whose clinical progress appears to be stalled or whose complexity results in delayed progress
- Involved in urgent Mental Health Act assessments as required
- Provide clinical accountability for decision-making on admissions, particularly where proposed admissions are at the edges of standardised admission criteria and where young people have specialist needs
- Chair Wessex/Dorset and Kent/Sussex weekly clinical activity panels focusing on the aforementioned
- Provide clinical leadership and support to Provider Collaborative case managers involved in admission decision-making
- The clinical work for the post-holder will be on a one-off consultative basis. They will not hold a clinical caseload of their own.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Serve as a clinical advisor to CAMHs partner services that offer community and inpatient psychiatric care.
- Advise on hospital admission avoidance plans for young people at risk of both psychiatric and general hospital admission.
- Help develop and implement discharge plans for young people admitted to hospital, and repatriation strategies for young people admitted outside of Hampshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex.
- Further step-down and discharge from inpatient care, for example from high dependency or intensive care beds (High Dependency/Intensive Care/Low-Medium Secure) to General Adolescent bed or to the community, when young people no longer meet the criteria for admission or transition to other services.
- Assess young people admitted to hospital (whether in Wessex/Dorset. Kent/Sussex or out-of-area) whose clinical progress appears to be stalled or whose complexity results in delayed progress
- Involved in urgent Mental Health Act assessments as required
- Provide clinical accountability for decision-making on admissions, particularly where proposed admissions are at the edges of standardised admission criteria and where young people have specialist needs
- Chair Wessex/Dorset and Kent/Sussex weekly clinical activity panels focusing on the aforementioned
- Provide clinical leadership and support to Provider Collaborative case managers involved in admission decision-making
- The clinical work for the post-holder will be on a one-off consultative basis. They will not hold a clinical caseload of their own.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Full registration with General Medical Council
- Fellowship/Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent and/or on the Specialist Register with the General Medical Council or other professional regulatory body
- Approved Clinician (AC) and Section 12 (Mental Health Act) status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Understanding and familiarity with NHS England: Building The Right Support and Care, Education and Treatment Reviews
- Broad experience of UK clinical practice including Tiers 3 and 4 CAMHs
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Clinical and operational familiarity with Wessex/Dorset and Kent/Sussex CAMHs and AMH landscape
- Clinical relationships with local and regional provider partner clinicians and managers Clinical relationships with local and regional commissioners
- Understanding of value of lived experience and experts by experience in service development
- Knowledge of local system challenges
- Significant experience in a senior medical manager position
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Full registration with General Medical Council
- Fellowship/Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent and/or on the Specialist Register with the General Medical Council or other professional regulatory body
- Approved Clinician (AC) and Section 12 (Mental Health Act) status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Understanding and familiarity with NHS England: Building The Right Support and Care, Education and Treatment Reviews
- Broad experience of UK clinical practice including Tiers 3 and 4 CAMHs
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Clinical and operational familiarity with Wessex/Dorset and Kent/Sussex CAMHs and AMH landscape
- Clinical relationships with local and regional provider partner clinicians and managers Clinical relationships with local and regional commissioners
- Understanding of value of lived experience and experts by experience in service development
- Knowledge of local system challenges
- Significant experience in a senior medical manager position
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
