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CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist – New High Intensity / PICU Service

Bournemouth | Recruitment & Retention Package of £30,000, plus up to £10,000 relocation package

Are you a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist looking to help shape an exciting new inpatient service for children and young people?

Our Inpatient CAMHS service in Bournemouth is expanding with the opening of a brand-new, purpose-built 8-bed High Intensity Environment / PICU, and we are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant to join us at this pivotal stage.

About the Role

As a CAMHS consultant, you will be enthusiastic and dedicated to working within Psychiatry with our children and young people. You will work alongside and receive support from the current Inpatient CAMHS consultant as well as both a specialist and specialty doctor.

Your clinical duties revolve around assessment and treatment planning for patients with complex presentations. Activities include direct face to face time, meeting families and community staff, reviewing records, clinical report writing and tribunal work, daily meeting with ward staff and CPA and discharge planning meetings.

You will work closely with Community CAMHS colleagues to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young people across Dorset. Pebble lodge is a General Adolescent Unit (GAU) and has accreditation from RCPsych to place core and specialist trainees.

You will be encouraged and supported in developing the appropriate management and leadership skills to fully participate in service developments. You will be expected to maintain Section 12 (2) and be an Approved Clinician.

You will have consultant colleagues within community CAMHS, inpatient unit and in the community team for children and young people with intellectual disabilities and specialist Forensic CAMHS. The teams are based (with some colocation) in Bournemouth, Poole, Blandford, Weymouth, and Dorchester.

You will be offered the opportunity to participate in the county-wide consultant on-call rota, which attracts a 3% on call availability supplement plus 0.75 APA per week. The on-call frequency is approximately 1 in 21.

We would love to hear from you to discuss how together we might design this role around you and your specialist interests. We are committed to enabling flexible working and would welcome a discussion as to how this could be achieved for you.

What We Offer

• £30,000 Recruitment & Retention Payment
  • £10,000 to paid paid as a lump sum on appointment
  • £10,000 to be paid in one lump sum on the first anniversary of the appointment
  • £10,000 to be paid in one lump sum on the second anniversary of the appointment 

• Relocation package up to £10,000 (if relocating to Dorset)
• Flexible working arrangements
• 10 days study leave per year
• Study leave budget up to £1,000 per annum
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to 34 days on completion of 7 years’ service)
• Full NHS benefits package

Interested or Want to Know More? - Join our CAMHS PICU team 

For any questions or the opportunity to discuss the role, please contact:

Dr Stephen Turberville, Medical Lead for Acute CAMHS & CAMHS Provider Collaborative; stephen.turberville@nhs.net or Nicola Box, Consultant Approved Clinician; nicola.box@nhs.net