Location: Rivendell, Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital, Omagh
Directorate: Women and Children
Contract and hours: Temporary, Part-time (32hpw and 8PAs) A waiting list may be established for the next 12 months should another similar post arise.
Job summary
The Specialty Doctor will support the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in providing psychiatric input to the Omagh/Fermanagh community based (out-patient) Multi-Disciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Team of the Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) area. They will be based in Rivendell in Tyrone and Fermanagh site although will be supported to work within the Hope Centre base in Enniskillen as required. There is flexibility in this post in that a less than 0.8WTE candidate is able to apply.
Main responsibilities
The CAMHS Multi-Disciplinary Team provides a community based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service throughout the WHSCT. In both the Derry~Londonderry and Tyrone/Fermanagh Multi-Disciplinary CAMHS teams, the responsibility for the care of the patients is distributed among the clinical members.
The CAMHS Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists provide medical assessment and treatment within a model of multi-disciplinary care. CAMHS Psychiatrists are not involved in the assessments of patients who are new to the service, but will rather become involved, where appropriate, in assessing young people who have completed their initial CAMHS assessment with the non-medical members of the team. The need for specific partnership input from a psychiatrist is generally based on clinical need and is agreed through MDT case discussion. Patients will be allocated to the Specialty Doctor by their Consultant Supervisor and such medical assessments will involve the Psychiatrist compiling a detailed patient history and assessment from a number of sources and preparing professional correspondences and reports as necessary to reflect their input, findings and recommendations. They will also have to liaise with other clinical teams both inside and outside of WHSCT in the course of comprehensive clinical care and will have to liaise with General Practitioners (GPs) and Medical Specialists in respect of feedback on their input and in relation to the physical health of patients under their care. They may also have to undertake and source specialist assessments pertinent to their clinical work eg Forensic CAMHS assessment, ASD assessment and may on occasion have to assess young people from outside of out catchment area by virtue of their admission to/temporary residence in local WHSCT settings.
The Psychiatrists will regularly attend and contribute to the weekly Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and perform medical duties as agreed within that forum or when appropriately designated out-with such meetings. The Psychiatrists are also available for advice and support to the multidisciplinary team as a whole but are not accountable for work undertaken by other clinicians in the team who have clinical supervision arrangements with other professional leads.
The Psychiatrists are responsible for holding and servicing their individual clinical caseload. This will include a number of cases that are co-worked with other members of the CAMHS Multi-Disciplinary Team and will include a range of cases which reflect the complex case profile of those attending the WHSCT CAMHS service. The actual caseload number will be determined by a number of factors including case complexity, full/part time working status, other commitments and will be agreed as appropriate through the process of Clinical Supervision.
Whilst the appointee will be based predominantly within the Tyrone and Fermanagh CAMHS Team they may be asked to provide medical input to cover other medical colleagues within the wider service during pre-coordinated holiday/study leave and whenever unexpected absences arise. It is envisaged that this impromptu cover will normally be by telephone or video-link and will only require the doctor to be present at another base within the Trust in exceptional circumstances.
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