Individual placement description |
| Placement: |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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| Year: |
F2
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| Region: |
West
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| Hospital(s): |
Skye House (G613H) - Glasgow
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| Main duties of placement: |
- This post is based within Skye House, the regional adolescent inpatient unit for the West of Scotland.
- The F2 doctor will contribute to the assessment and management of young people with a range of mental health presentations. This may include mood disorders, psychosis, eating disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, self-harm, emotional dysregulation, and complex psychosocial difficulties.
- Duties include contributing to physical health care, multidisciplinary assessment and treatment planning, risk assessment and management, clinical meetings, admission and discharge processes and liaison with families, carers and other agencies involved in the young person's care.
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| Typical work pattern: |
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- This is an unbanded placement with no out-of-hours or on-call commitments
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| Learning opportunities: |
- Experience in the assessment and management of mental health disorders in young people within a specialist inpatient setting.
- Opportunities to develop an understanding of safeguarding, child protection, family work, and mental health legislation relevant to children and adolescents.
- Exposure to a specialist multidisciplinary team including psychiatry, psychology, family therapy, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics
- Learning through supervised clinical work, multidisciplinary meetings, reflective practice, local educational activity, and regular supervision.
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| Teaching: |
- Attendance at the mandatory Foundation Year 2 teaching programme.
- Attendance at local FY psychiatry teaching sessions delivered within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Participation in Skye House educational activities, multidisciplinary teaching and reflective practice opportunities.
- Additional teaching opportunities may be available depending on the specific placement and should be discussed with the clinical supervisor
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| Unique selling points: |
- Experience within a regional specialist adolescent inpatient service.
- Opportunity to work with young people, families and wider professional networks in a structured multidisciplinary setting.
- Exposure to complex adolescent mental health presentations and interface between mental health, physical health, development, education and social context.
- Excellent opportunities for supported learning with an experience specialist team.
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It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.
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