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Location
Bury, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
The post holder will have a shared office at the Young Peoples Unit and will have the use of medical secretaries for this service. The Hope Unit Consultant Psychiatrist has clinical line management responsibility for the post holder and is responsible for the post holders weekly 1:1 supervision and supervises the post holders day-to-day work on the unit. The CAMHS Clinical Director has managerial line management responsibility for the post holder. Clinical The Hope Unit admits on average up to 1 - 2 young people per week, referred directly from the community teams. Under Consultant supervision, to provide psychiatric and routine medical care to 12 adolescent inpatients with severe acute mental health disorders. To undertake admission clerking, taking histories, weekly mental state reviews, risk assessments and review of observation status, and medication prescribing. To collect and compile collateral information from relatives/carers and from other sources, recording risk events. Clinical administration to write timely admission and discharge summaries on all patients, prepare reports for CPA reviews, and provide other written communications in discussion with the Unit consultant. To ensure physical health of inpatients - undertake physical examinations, order appropriate investigations, and to attend to and competently manage general medical ailments, which are routinely encountered on inpatient units. To refer to and liaise with acute paediatric and medical services when required. To effectively run physical health clinic in collaboration with the nursing team and the pharmacist To attend to and competently manage first line issues presenting on the unit along with nursing team, including acute psychiatric or medical emergencies. To take specific responsibility for managing the clinical care and chairing CPAs / review and discharge meetings for specified patients using the Acute Care pathway, in agreement with and under supervision of the Hope Unit consultant To attend MDT ward rounds, and actively contribute to the multidisciplinary review of inpatients. To run ward rounds when required in absence of consultant. To attend and actively contribute to CPA/ Review meetings. To help review progress and help set case management/ recovery goals, in consultation with young people, their carers and professional networks, and key members of the team. To occasionally chair CPAs for clients under supervision of the unit consultant. If the post holder has Section 12 approval - To carry out Mental Health Act assessments on the ward, when indicated. (This is not however a compulsory requirement). There is No regular expectation in this post for outreach or outpatient work. However, if the post holder is interested there is an opportunity to be actively involved in access assessment discussions and carrying out such assessments as and when required. (Alternative travel arrangements would be available for non-car drivers on journeys essential to the carrying out of their duties.) To utilise the Care Programme Approach, and also the New Mental Health Act, the Children Act and the Mental Capacity Act, when required. To contribute when appropriate to education and supervision of junior psychiatry trainees, when they are attached to the service. There is no formal day time on call duty. However, it is expected that the Horizon and the Hope Unit junior doctors will avail themselves to cross cover ward work during leave, and to mutually assist the other respective unit, when urgent circumstances require and as agreed between the two consultants. Post holder will be encouraged to prepare reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals under the supervision of the Consultant as well as attend these Tribunals both in a shadowing capacity as well as giving oral evidence.
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Salary
£52.53k - £82.4k per annum
