Specialty Doctor CAMHS Hillingdon 8PAs (potential for 10PAs)

The postholder will be expected to provide medical input into the CAMHS sub-teams including conducting initial assessments, psychiatric assessments, risk assessments and delivering treatments including the initiation and monitoring of pharmacological treatments. The postholder will be expected to support the MDT with regard to comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management planning, guided by the CAMHS care pathways and clinical model. Therapies lead and team manager who work closely with the outer 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 Harrow 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. Harrow 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 local care quality meeting, a doctors meeting twice a month which includes peer group case discussions, a weekly local consultants meeting and a monthly senior management meeting which the postholder will be part of.

• To undertake assessments of young people and families referred to the CAMHS team with mental health disorders, devise formulations and care plans and provide interventions/treatments.
• To assess children and adolescents with mental health problems, presenting acutely to the service or to paediatrics.
• To provide treatment and therapyappropriate tolevel of training and experience under the general supervision of the consultant psychiatrist
• To attend service wide meetings for provision of peer education and peer discussion
• To attend CAMHS multidisciplinary team meetings for mutual support, in-service training, for the review of clinical cases and opportunities for audit.
• Toparticipatein the provision of teaching to medical undergraduates and other professionals.
• To ensure good record keeping of assessments and interventions and to contribute to reports/correspondence as outlined in the clinical protocol of the service.
• Toparticipatein continuing professional development.
• To provide relevant reports for educational/social services planning.
• To provide clinical care for other patients if theirallocateddoctor/case manager is unavailable.
• To gain experience of some psychological treatments.
• Toparticipatein clinical audit, quality improvement and research.
• To communicate medical issues effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
  
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