Do you share our Health Board values; Caring for each other; Working together; Always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB.
This is a specialty doctor post joining a clinical team of consultants in child and adolescent psychiatry and medical trainees, who collectively are responsible for the provision of psychiatric support as part of the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services within the Health Board.
This is a permanent position due to commence on as soon as possible.
The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary clinical team including the above medical colleagues, in addition to nurses, clinical psychologists, and psychotherapists in various therapeutic modalities, supported by an administration team.
Swansea Bay CAMHS provides services across Part 1 and Part 2 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010. There is a Single Point of Access team providing referral triage and duty clinician support and emergency work is supported by the CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team.
The service works closely with other services and agencies, including education and social care. The service benefits from working alongside the First Episode Psychosis team, in Adult Mental Health, and the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Team, in Child Health.
You will provide a clinical service, with colleagues, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
Working with your colleagues and the multi-professional team you will have continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care; allowing for proper delegation to, and training of staff. In partnership with clinical and managerial colleagues you will also have responsibility for the safe, efficient and effective functioning of the services in which you work in line with the values, operational policies and integrated medium-term plan (IMTP) of the Health Board.
You may be expected to deputise for absent colleagues and in exceptional unforeseen circumstances may have to perform additional duties to ensure the safe running of the department. Where such duties take place outside your normal contracted duties, you will receive either an equivalent off duty period or will be remunerated appropriately.
For more details in relation to this post, please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification. These are available bilingually, in both English and Welsh.
For more details in relation to this post, please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification. These are available bilingually, in both English and Welsh.
