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COMMUNITY CAMHS LEARNING DISABILITY
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 6 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED522-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
George Turle House,
Town
Canterbury
Salary
£59,175 - £95,400 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/11/2024 23:59

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SPECIALTY DOCTOR COMMUNITY CAMHS LEARNING DISABILITY (CANTERBURY)

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

COMMUNITY CAMHS LEARNING DISABILITY

SPECIALTY DOCTOR

(CANTERBURY – KENT)

 

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

 

Job Details:

 

Salary

£59,175 - £95,400 per annum (Pro-Rata)

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Part-time: 6 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 4.5:1.5)

On call

Optional - worked in PAs

Location

George Turle House, 54 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8JY

 

Qualifications needed:

·       Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

·       Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

·       Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders

·       At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

Main duties of the job

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent. 

 

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

 

We are currently recruiting for a community CAMHS Learning Disability Specialty Doctor position in the Canterbury Learning disability CAMHS Community Team, based at George Turle House, 54 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8JY. This is a new post, that has been created to provide high quality care.

 

You will join a full-time substantive Community CAMHS Learning Disability Consultant Psychiatrist within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Working for our organisation

Why Kent?

Kent is a county in Southeast England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the northwest, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the southwest. Kent is famously known as the Garden of England, renowned for its beauty.

 

You’ll not only benefit from the green surroundings, i.e., the Kent Downs; there are also some fantastic blue beaches. Kent is steeped in history with an abundance of castles, museums, and places of interest to visit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

·       Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Kent.

·       Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases.

·       Provide guidance and supervision to the team.

·       Work directly with children and young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals.

·       Work alongside a full-time CAMHS LD Consultant Psychiatrists within the service.

·       Develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards.

·       Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.

·       Offer clinical supervision and teaching to the core trainee on placement.

·       Support your peers and the team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.

·       Supervise junior colleagues and liaise with other health and social professionals and agencies.

 

To be successful in your application, you will need:

·       To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,

·       To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health and Learning Disability, care,

·       Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,

·       To be a team player

 

NELFT Benefits:

·       Relocation expenses

·       Career Development and training

·       Just & Compassionate Culture

·       Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

·       Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

·       Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

·       Employee Assistance Programme

·       Health & Wellness initiatives

·       11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

·       Retail Discounts

·       Flexible working and agile working

·       Cycle to work scheme

 

To apply for this role, please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk or www.jobs.nhs.uk and search under job reference number 395-MED522-24.

 

For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in Kent, by accessing this video link: Working for NELFT in our Kent Medical Directorate

 

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services.

 

Please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/why-join-us or www.nelft.nhs.uk

Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.

Twitter: @NELFT / NELFTCareers

LinkedIn: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust | LinkedIn

Facebook: NELFT | London | Facebook

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice
  • Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
Desirable criteria
  • A postgraduate qualification in psychiatry

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders
  • At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a parttime basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators
  • Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good knowledge of the biological, psychological and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based management interventions
  • Up to date knowledge of recent DH documentation and NICE Guidelines.
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of change management skills

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent clinical skills.
Desirable criteria
  • Clear thoughts on how to involve service users in service development and to provide a service which is experienced as being “service-user friendly”

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Sophia Holliday
Job title
Associate Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:

 

Associate Medical Director: Dr Sophia Holliday               [email protected]

 

Medical Director: Dr Vincent Perry                                     [email protected]

 

Chief Medical Officer: Dr Caroline Allum                           [email protected]

 

Medical Staffing:                                                                   [email protected]

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