Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (BaNES)

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire?
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.
We have two consultant opportunities in our Bath and North East Somerset CAMHS team; 1 full time and 1x 0.6. As a Consultant you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/ supervision.
As a Consultant in the team you will join a multidisciplinary team providing high-quality care to young people and families in the CAMHS Bath and North East Somerset in the Getting More Help service. You will also provide medical input to the Neurodevelopmental Clinic.
This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service. We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care. Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS. Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project. We work closely with our BSW ICB, Local Authorities, NHS providers and Third Sector Partners to transform services for young people up to 25.
If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people’s mental health and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients.
These posts are substantive Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatry post with the multidisciplinary team in Keynsham, covering CAMHS in Bath and North East Somerset in the Getting More Help service and Neurodevelopmental assessment clinic (NDC). There are also consultants in the team who provides psychiatric input to the Eating Disorders Service (TEDS) and CAMHS Learning Disability service. The team also offer CAMHS Getting Help Services to young people in the area, a Crisis and Home Treatment Service and outreach work for hard to engage young people. There are Mental Health Support Teams in local school and an In-Reach to Bath and North East Somerset Local Authority. We offer a mixed model of treatment with digital and face to face working.
At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working . If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.
You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services:
BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube

Please refer the Job description for details