Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - AMHT Bedford

Job overview

A Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is required for our CAMHS Adolescent Mental Health Team based in Bedford.  This is a 1.0 wte, 10 sessions post.

Bedford CAMHS are part of the ELFT Specialist Services directorate, providing assessment and treatment of young people with mental health disorders up to the age of 18 years.

All ELFT CAMH Services comprise a number of multidisciplinary teams based upon care pathways including:

- Adolescent Mental Health Team

- Emotional & Behavioural Team(s)

- Neurodevelopmental Team (Learning Disability and Autism +/- ADHD)

- LAC / Targeted Team

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to offer contributions to the wider clinical leadership, the multi-disciplinary team, to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment where clinically appropriate and case management of high risk presentations.

The Trust is a progressive mental health and community services trust with very strong clinical leadership at all levels of the organisation.

We encourage and will support applicants to undertake formal training in Quality Improvement methodology and take a lead on QI development within their respective services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed description of the main responsibilities please see attached JD & PS

Following a recent CQC inspection the Trust was awarded an outstanding rating.

We have a focus on improving the experience of patients, carers and our staff. For the last two years we have been developing a special quality improvement programme that provides our clinical staff, patients and carers with skills to transform our services. We believe that our staff are the organisation's greatest asset and are the best agents for change