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Locum Specialty Doctor - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
Basic Salary: - £54,903 to £85,554p.a. (10 Programmed Activities)
FULL TIME POST AVAILABLE - FIXED TERM ONE YEAR
OUR VALUES IN ACTION
●Care and Compassion ●Quality and Teamwork ●Dignity and Respect ●Openness, Honesty and Responsibility
Why work for us?
Patients are at the centre of everything we do in our daily working lives at NHS Borders ensuring they are safe, cared for efficiently, effectively by suitably experienced and qualified staff driving quality at the heart of patient care. We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS.
The Role
You must be a full registered medical practitioner with the GMC with a license to practice. A minimum of four years full time or equivalent experience post-qualification with two years full time or equivalent in training in Psychiatry is required. MRC Psych (or equivalent) is not essential but desirable.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing and developing CAMH service as a locum specialty doctor, in a beautiful rural location in the Scottish Borders. Full or less-than-full time hours will be considered. The successful applicant will work with the consultant psychiatrists in the service, along with the wider multidisciplinary team, delivering care and promoting a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency approach to the assessment and management of children with mental disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. When the post holder joins the service, there will be full C&A psychiatry staffing for the population, as recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Building and Sustaining CAMHS (2013).
Informal enquiries, discussions and visits are welcome – please contact:
Dr Leonie Boeing, Medical Lead CAMHS, leonie.boeing2@borders.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.