Consultant Child And Adolescent Psychiatrist

This appointment will be to Donegal Mental Health Services under the Public Only Consultant Contract 2023 on a full time basis of 37 hours per week. This post is located in Buncrana, Co. Donegal and provides a service to children and adolescents in the Inishowen area.

Main duties:

To provide specialist assessment, diagnostic formulation and treatment of mental illnesses and/or mental disorders in individuals under the age of 18 years in accordance with the National Standardised Operating Procedure for CAMHS for subsequent national policies, procedures and /or guidelines.

• To ensure that duties and functions are undertaken in a manner that minimises delays for patients and possible disruption of services.
• To maintain appropriate and contemporaneous medical records of all clinical contacts.
• To provide prompt notification to the Executive Clinical Director and the Mental Health Commission of serious untoward incidents in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Contract: 3 year Specified Purpose Contract

Eligibility Criteria: Applicants must be registered as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the Specialty of child and adolescent psychiatry.