Consultant Psychiatrist

City & Hackney Specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service CONSULTANT CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST 8 PA's per week A Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is required for City & Hackney Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. These clinical sessions are located within our NeurodevelopmentalPathway and Behaviour Support and Outreach Team (6 sessions and 2 sessions respectively). These are long-established consultant sessions, with the vacancy arising due to the ending of a fixed term contract. Applications will be welcomed from candidates included in or eligible for the Specialist Register or within six months of obtaining the CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. For further information please contact Dr Kirsten Mitchell, Lead Psychiatrist C&H CAMHS on Kirsten.mitchell1@nhs.net or Dr Rafik Refaat, Clinical Director ELFT on rafik.refaat@nhs.net.

The post-holder would be expected to provide Consultant input and clinical leadership to the Neurodevelopmental Pathway and provide one day per week input to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway. The role of the Consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies and facilitate the development of the team and wider service You will join 4 (3.2 WTE) other Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists based in C&H CAMHS. In addition to the above clinical duties, clinical supervision, teaching, training and research, the service takes part in the Trust's active and extensive Healthcare Governance and Quality Improvement agenda. The local population is very diverse with high levels of deprivation. There are good working relationships with Community CAMHS, Social Care, Education and Third Sector agencies through the C&H CAMHS Alliance.