Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Learning & development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Staff discounts & NHS schemes

Wellbeing support

Staff networks

Job summary

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to lead senior psychiatric input for inpatients at Parkview Clinic, Birmingham. You will provide specialist assessment, formulating care plans within a multidisciplinary team and support risk management.

You will work closely with families, carers, and community CAMHS, paediatrics and social care to plan admission, treatment and discharge, promoting recovery and safe care in the community.

Qualifications

• Must have medical qualification and eligibility for UK practice.
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatry especially with eating disorders is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychiatric assessment and management for young people with eating disorders and co-occurring conditions.
• Lead formulation, care planning, and review within a multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee pharmacological treatments and risk management, including re-feeding where needed.
• Participate in family-based interventions and work with carers to promote recovery.
• Support crisis management and continuity of care with Community CAMHS and other services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Risk management

Specialist consultation

Education

Medical degree

Job description

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) is seeking to recruit a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist who will be responsible for treating children and young adults up to the age of 18 years at Parkview Clinic, Birmingham. The post holder will provide senior specialist psychiatric input and medical leadership within an established multidisciplinary inpatient team. They will have a central role in delivering psychiatric assessment and treatment for inpatients and their families, as well as contributing to providing psychiatric and medical risk management. The post holder will behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organization, act as a role model to colleagues, and use their initiative to take responsibility for the quality of their work and the service provided to patients. They will offer specialist consultation and peer supervision to medical and non-medical colleagues within the clinical team including the supervision of non-Consultant grade medical colleagues. They will also be expected to take a strategic role in the development of tier 4 services and the Children and Young People Directorate.

• Provide specialist psychiatric assessment and management for young people with eating disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
• Lead on formulation, care planning, and review within a multidisciplinary team including psychologists, nurses, dietitians, family therapists, occupational therapists, and social workers.
• Oversee pharmacological treatments, physical health monitoring, and mental state management including re-feeding and naso-gastric feeding. Review patients at a frequency according to their clinical need and risks and ensure that families and carers are involved wherever possible in treatment planning. Support the provider collaborative and the multidisciplinary team to assess referrals for admission and plan their care.
• Participate in family-based interventions, working collaboratively with carers to promote recovery and resilience.
• Support early identification of risk and contribute to crisis management plans.
• Liaise effectively with community CAMHS, paediatric, education, and social care services to ensure continuity of care.
• Contribute to early and comprehensive discharge planning to minimise length of stay and promote sustained recovery in the community.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.