Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Community CAMHS

Job overview

Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Community CAMHS

1 FULL TIME (10 PA) POST – Permanent (part time applicants welcome).

Applications are invited for 1 Full time (10PA) Consultant post in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Sheffield Community CAMHS. This is a replacement post based within Sheffield Community CAMHS . Part time applicants are welcomed and job share’s will be considered.  Candidates keen to pursue special interest sessions are welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

You will be professionally responsible to the Medical Director and clinically responsible and accountable to the Clinical Director. You will also be accountable to the Service Lead for the delivery of the team targets. You will be expected to work collaboratively with the Service Manager who has general responsibility for the functioning of the teams.

You will be clinically responsible for the children and young people referred to you, and responsible for providing comprehensive and timely psychiatric assessment and treatment.

On call duties

The consultants will share a 1:8 on call rota with other consultants prorate category A, with remuneration of 5% as a second on call provision. 1st on call is delivered by a junior doctor rota of 1:8 category. This is a 24 hour non-resident, 1 in 7 rota.  The first on call is covered by core trainees and higher trainees from the local training scheme.  The rota covers the mental health in-patient lodges at The Becton Centre and the acute site.

This is a notional timetable, the details of which will be dependent on the needs in the team and an agreed job plan. Annual Job Planning is undertaken by the Clinical Director with the Associate Director.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care