CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist

This job attracts the following remuneration package for the successful external applicant:

• £8,000 - Relocation Allowance (if applicable)
• 1 PA - for Special interest (subject to agreement)
• Car Allowance - Through Salary Sacrifice

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary Tier 4 Alternative to Admission Adolescent Day Unit, located in the grounds of Wokingham Hospital.

You will bring medical leadership to an established multidisciplinary team and care for young people with acute and complex mental health needs.

Berkshire CAMHS is a child and adolescent mental health service that provides support, advice, guidance and treatment for children and young people across the Getting Help, Getting More Help and Getting Risk Support domains of the Thrive framework and this post is part of our local Tier 4 provision.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will work for the CAMHS Phoenix Unit, an adolescent Tier 4 Alternative to Admission Out of Hospital Service for up to 16 young people. This is a replacement post.

Phoenix Unit provides Tier 4 packages of care with coordinated, intensive and multimodal interventions with evidence-based treatment for severe and enduring mental illness when young patients needs can no longer be met by community CAMHS teams or crisis services.

Psychiatric input, if required out of hours, is provided by a rota of CAMHS consultants on call, and the postholders core working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) wasformed in April 2001 and successfully became licensed as a Foundation Trust inMay 2007. In April 2011 the community services which were previouslythe provider arms of NHS Berkshire East and NHS Berkshire West PCTs merged withthe Trust.

The main centres of population are Reading in theWest of the County and Slough in the East.Within Berkshire there are also major populations at Newbury, Wokinghamin the West and Bracknell, Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot in the East, as welland many significant urban developments in smaller towns forming essentially asingle conurbation along the M4 Corridor.

Berkshire is characterised by concentrations ofpopulation and large rural areas. Itincludes some of the most affluent and least deprived communities in thecountry, but also has pockets of markedly deprived wards.

The Trust is part of two Integrated Care Systems (Frimley ICS andBuckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West ICS) and partners with sixlocal unitary authorities. The trust has an outstandingCQC rating.

Job responsibilities

The Consultant will work for the CAMHS PhoenixUnit, an adolescent Tier 4 Alternative to Admission Out of Hospital Service forup to 16 young people.

This is a replacement post. Phoenix provides a Tier 4level care package with coordinated, intensive and multimodal interventionswith evidence-based treatment for severe and enduring mental illness when youngpatients needs can no longer be met by community CAMHS teams or crisisservices.

Psychiatric input, if required out of hours, is provided by the CAMHSconsultant on call as the postholders core working hours are Monday to Friday9am-5pm (unless on call).

Person Specification Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Additional clinical qualifications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearpro rata per annum