Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Consultant in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

NHS Lanarkshire Wide (Various Locations)

NHS Lanarkshire presents a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative and collaborative large CAMHS service. We are looking to recruit consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists to posts across NHS Lanarkshire. 

The service has undergone significant recent development and enhancement. This has included a Neurodevelopmental Service with clinicians from across Children’s Services which has research links with the University of Glasgow. There have been system redesigns to enhance patient care such as the expansion of the CAMHS Tier 4 teams and the implementation of measures to support consultant psychiatrists. The latter has included the introduction of prescribing pharmacists to the service.

These posts sit within a large health board in Scotland which currently has over 70 consultant psychiatrists and 20 specialty doctors and associate specialists in post.  

The CAMHS service has four locality teams and in addition has teams which focus on specialist areas including assessments and intervention for; care experienced young people, children and young people impacted by parental mental illness, an eating disorder team and a paediatric psychology team.  An infant mental health service is also in place within the health board. 

As would be expected in a large service there is a wide array of psychological treatments delivered by clinicians, including an adolescent Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Programme.  We value multi-disciplinary working and in addition to nurses and clinical psychologists, mental health clinicians in the service have a range of professions, such as social work, and many modalities of therapeutic training including systemic family therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and play therapy. 

We are keen for consultant psychiatrists to be involved in shaping service improvement and quality so this is an exciting moment to join an expanding service which is forward looking and continually aiming to improve.

The job is offered as a full-time post on a 10 PA basis with breakdown being 8 Direct Clinical Care and 2 Supporting Professional Activity, subject to confirmation and approval of the final job plan. Applications will be considered from those wishing to work less than full-time.

The University of Glasgow enjoys close links with NHS Lanarkshire, and our medical students benefit greatly from the excellent educational opportunities provided by the board in both primary and secondary care. Those who are or who will be involved in teaching our students, or in any other activity which involves a contribution to teaching, research or scholarship within the University are eligible for honorary status at the University of Glasgow.

Honorary Status Role Holders are entitled to numerous benefits including a University of Glasgow ID card, use of the Library and other facilities, and a University IT account as required for their role. They have access to all courses run by the IT Services on the same basis as members of staff and are also permitted an educational discount when PC equipment is purchased through the IT Services.

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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Lisa Sigouin, Clinical Director on 01698 754517.

If you have any queries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Nicole Hetherington – Senior HR Assistant on 01698 754350 or via email medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Interview's are scheduled for: 26th August 2024

Please click the following link for the Recruitment Pack and for more information on working in Lanarkshire:

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