Senior Clinical Fellow - CAMHS Psychiatrist

This is a role to support the psychiatry team in Islington CAMHS. The role has emerged due to a vacancy in one of the CAMHS Senior trainee (ST) posts allocated in Islington CAMHS, part of the GOSH rotation, from February 2025. It is a 6 months fixed term role and will be suitable for those who wish to obtain additional experience in child & adolescent psychiatry, and those who are considering a career in child and adolescent psychiatry and would like to gain skills and competences in the discipline.
This is a full time post but applications for less than full time roles, or job shares, will also be considered.
The post holder will join three consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists (2.7WTE). The service hosts three core trainees in psychiatry from the Royal Free and UCLH rotation. Although this is a trust grade post, the clinical duties and teaching components are the same as in our deanery funded training posts. The post holder will receive weekly supervision by a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and will be supported in developing their clinical skills and expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry., Clinical duties:
+ Provide psychiatric assessment, including risk assessment, shared decision-making with patients/parents/carers and treatment for children and young people referred to the service.
+ Work in partnership with young people, parents and carers to develop effective, evidence based, management plans with ongoing review of the formulation and of these management plans
+ Provide psychiatric consultation, advice, and appropriate support to colleagues within CAMHS as well as to professionals in the wider network of the child, young person or family.
+ Clinical liaison with clinicians in other community and specialist children's services as well as with specialist inpatient or other residential services.
+ Support and develop links between the team, primary care, other local services and schools.
+ Be responsive and flexible in seeing children and families for urgent assessment where there is risk of self-harm or suspicion of severe mental illness.
+ Contribute to quality improvement through audit/ QI of both psychiatric and multidisciplinary team work.

Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., · The post holder will be expected to work with local managers and professional colleagues in the efficient running of the service. The post holder and the consultant child psychiatrists are line managed by the child psychiatry Clinical Lead, Dr Aspa Paspali, within CAMHS and ultimately are clinically accountable to the Clinical Director in the Children and Young People's Services. Subject to the provisions of terms and conditions of service, the post-holder will be expected to observe the agreed policies of the NHS Islington Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service and the procedures drawn up in consultation with the profession on clinical matters. The post holder will be expected to adhere to Trust policies.
· Islington Community CAMHS has eight WTE administration staff managed by a CAMHS Admin Manager. There is comprehensive admin support for appointment systems within the teams and throughput of work for all types of admin support is within appropriate service standards.
· Office accommodation for Community CAMHS is restricted. All clinical staff are allocated specific desk space in shared offices. The post holder will have access to a desk top PC or laptop. There is IT support from the IT Department.
· All medical staff are expected to comply with Health and Safety policies.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation