Position: Staff Grade in CAMHS
Hours: This position is a full-time role for 40 hours per week.
Setting: Inpatient
Location: Staffordshire
As a Speciality Doctor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services in the CAMHS mental health service. Here you have extensive opportunities to develop good collaborative therapeutic alliances with patients and patient’s families while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
• Full GMC licence to practice
• Experience in psychiatry in the UK
Main duties:
• Undertake urgent and routine psychiatric assessments when necessary
• To liaise with GPs regarding a service users medical monitoring results
• To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable
• To provide advice and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary teams and regularly attend MDT meetings
• Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plans
• The Specialty Doctor will support the Consultant Psychiatrists in complex case management.
General skills required
In addition to your qualifications, as a locum Staff Grade in CAMHS, you will have:
• Quick thinking abilities
• Excellent attention to detail
• A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
• Excellent timekeeping
• A flexible attitude
• A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills.
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