Your responsibilities will include:
- Review referrals and determine appropriateness for admission
- Conduct admission assessments and maintain effective management plans of all young people on the unit
- Conduct risk assessments and review regularly
- Allocate specialist psychological treatments in line with individual needs
- Assess physical health
- Ensuring effective liaison with referring teams
- Facilitating regular CPA review meeting
- Act as Responsible Clinician for young people detained under the Mental Health Act
- Involvement in quality, inspections and governance processes
You will also be required to take part in the On Call Consultant rota.
To be successful in this role, you'll need
- Registered on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a licence to practice
- Experience of CAMHS Forensic and/or Eating Disorders desirable.
Must Have:
- Registered on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a licence to practice
- Experience of CAMHS Forensic and/or eating disorders
- Core Psychiatry Training (CT1-CT3): 3 years full-time training covering general adult psychiatry and other subspecialties, enabling eligibility for Higher Specialist Training.
- Higher Specialist Training (ST4-ST6): 3 years in a chosen psychiatry subspecialty (e.g., adult, forensic, child and adolescent, or old age psychiatry), leading to a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT): Confirms eligibility for consultant psychiatrist roles and placement on the GMC Specialist Register.
- Educational Qualifications: Recognised medical degree (e.g., MBBS, MBChB) from a GMC-approved institution.