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The successful applicant will have responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems referred to East Central Bristol CAMHS, alongside an experienced consultant colleague.

The East Central CAMHS is a well-led, well-established enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team. East Central Bristol has a diverse multi-cultural population.

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The diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families with severe and complex mental health problems. 

The consultant will carry psychiatric responsibility only for those patients seen by psychiatrists within their respective CAMHS team.

The consultant will not routinely care coordinate. All cases on the consultant’s caseload should have another clinician from the team as care coordinator.

The post-holder would be expected to offer new assessment appointments, follow-up, consultation and multi-agency liaison, as well as be available for unpredictable emergency work. 

The post will be 4.5DCC and 1.5SPA for the first 12 months. This will be reviewed yearly via the job planning process.

Frequency of follow-up appointments will be determined on a case by case basis, and will include medication reviews, mental state monitoring and reviews with the care coordinator as appropriate.

There would be an opportunity for the post holder to develop a special interest depending on the needs of the locality team. 

Within Bristol East Central CAMHS, referrals to Psychiatry are allocated between the  psychiatrists on a case discussion basis according to specialist interests, complexity and in the context of other caseload demands.

The consultant is expected to provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team, in conjunction with the clinical service and team manager and other senior staff.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.  We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.