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THE POST

• The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the Darwin Centre for Young People working closely with MDT and nursing team colleagues delivering the service in line with the NHS England Service specification.
• The post-holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist clinical assessment and treatment to adolescents with acute, high risk psychiatric disorders referred for admission to an inpatient ward. This may include telephone consultation to colleagues within and outside the CPFT, completion of access assessments from paperwork, pre-admission assessments, and rapid assessment after crisis admission.
• To be eligible to apply for or already approved under Section 12 MHA
• To be eligible to train for or already qualified as an Approved Clinician.
• Attend and help shape the team meetings in order to ensure robust clinical governance activities are maintained.
• Link with Intensive Support Team and community teams to formulate discharge plans.  
• 2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, teaching, training, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional one PA (or pro-rata) is also allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holder’s professional development and the Trust’s ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services. There is a termly CPD event. Examples of SPA activity include working within the Trust’s governance structure e.g. participation in the Ethics Committee, Clinical Audit and NICE Implementation Group, the Medicines Management Committee or fulfilling the role of Lead Clinician. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.
• Training of Core and Specialty trainees including as their Consultant Supervisor. The Darwin Centre is a placement for CPFT’s Core Training scheme and Specialty Trainees in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry who are on the East of England Higher Training Scheme
• Contribute to the daytime Duty Consultant rota. Together with consultant colleagues and ensure Consultant cover is available as needed to back up the Duty Practitioner. 
• Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 9) providing Child Psychiatry, non-residential, third tier, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners. This is a Trust-wide rota covering all of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the three Tier 4 units and the three acute hospitals.  There is an expectation that phone calls will be responded to promptly and that on occasion consultants may be required to attend a hospital site to assess patients.
• Contribute to the teaching and training of STs, CTs, medical students and MDT members.
• Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people on an occasional basis and attend to any safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
• Maintain high quality clinical records and otherwise participate in the administrative duties associated with patient care and the running of the service.
• Collaborate with medical colleagues to maintain the service in the absence of departmental colleagues due to annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.