Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAMHS)

We are looking to recruit a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) based at Hillbrook in Keighley. You will work alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team to provide assessment, treatment and care for children and young people with a range of mental health needs. You will provide medical leadership to the team and work closely with consultant colleagues across CAMHS, contributing to service development, clinical governance and continuous quality improvement. The role also offers opportunities to develop special interests through job planning and contribute to research, teaching and training., As Consultant Psychiatrist, you will undertake medical reviews, outpatient clinics, emergency assessments, home and hospital visits, and provide consultation, supervision and clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team. You will attend daily huddles, case reviews and team meetings, as well as participating in daytime unplanned work and the on-call rota. You will contribute to Mental Health Act assessments, including Section 136 assessments, and provide supervision to junior doctors, nurse prescribers and other professionals. The role also includes teaching, clinical governance, audit, research, quality improvement and service development, with dedicated Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) time for CPD and wider professional responsibilities.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :Increase mileage rates for > 4500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.