Specialty Doctor - Barnet Adolescent Service (Holly Oak Clinic) in Edgware

This is a Specialty Doctor post working with Adolescents with complex mental health difficulties in the well-established Barnet Adolescent Service. This is an interim post which could be converted to a substantive post which has been created as expansion of the service and joins the established multidisciplinary team with a senior consultant colleague.

This post will have responsibility for adolescents with complex mental health presentations including emerging personality disorders, self-harm, psychosis and those who have been in tier 4 units. The post-holder will be professionally accountable to the chief medical officer BEH Mental Health NHS Trust & Camden and Islington Foundation Trust. The managerial accountability will move to the clinical Director of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMH) division which is due to be set up in January 2023.

Main duties of the job:

• Consultants have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for proper functioning of departments.
• They are expected to undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinical departments.
• All Consultants take responsibility both singly and corporately for the management of junior medical staff.
• In particular, they are expected to be responsible for approving and monitoring junior staff holidays and study leave, and junior staff locum arrangements where appropriate.
• Consultants are expected to be part of the management structure within the unit.

Working for our organisation:

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• The role of ensuring that clinical care provided to the service users is of a high quality and is provided within the Trust’s policy framework.
• The post holder will undertake the necessary clinical administrative duties associated with providing excellent patient care.
• The post holder will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team, and therefore attend multidisciplinary team meetings and provide advice and support to the team.
• To support the further transformation of the service and lead on QI projects.
• To ensure all cases are appropriately allocated to professionals within the expertise and skills available in the team.
• To play a role in implementing children and young people’s IAPT.
• To assess and treat children and families.
• To actively engage in links with other parts of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, Primary Care Services, Social Services and other agencies relevant to the services.
• To have primary responsibility for cases where they have direct face to face contact.
• To have shared responsibility for cases on which they collaborate or co-work with other professionals.
• Ensure all cases receive an appropriate treatment modality within the existing resources.
• To provide supervision and clinical support to the junior psychiatric doctors.
• To be available to other professionals when they need to discuss cases.
• Manage an established caseload who are on medication.
• Assess newly allocated cases and formulate appropriate treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines.
• Complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.
• Undertake other duties (as negotiated) which contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.
• Participate in the day-time psychiatry consultant second on call rota.
• Other clinicians provide the first on call rota.

Person specification:

Qualifications & Experience:

• Full Registration with the General Medical Council UK
• Membership of a professional indemnity organization
• Engagement with Annual Appraisal
• Experience of Safeguarding Children framework
• Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent
• Section 12(2) Approval under Mental Health Act and eligible to act as Responsible Clinician for detained patients or eligible
• Higher degree in a relevant subject

Leadership and Management:

• Engagement with Service Management
• Experience of Clinical Leadership
• Management Training

Teaching and Training:

• Experience in multi-disciplinary teaching
• Qualification in Teaching
• Achieved competencies to be Clinical Supervisor in accordance with HEE requirements

Research:

• Experience of co-operating in Clinical Research
• Publication in a peer-reviewed journal
• Leading Clinical Research

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.