Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, where you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality mental health services for young people. This position offers a chance to work in a supportive environment focused on staff well-being and professional development. With opportunities for flexible working, generous leave, and a commitment to innovation, this role is ideal for forward-thinking professionals eager to make a real impact in the community. Experience the Northumbria Way, where your contributions will be valued and recognized.

Benefits

Extensive staff health and well-being programme

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Access to lease car scheme

Professional development opportunities

On-site nursery places

Savings scheme via salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• Eligibility for Specialist Register in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Relevant higher degree such as MD, PhD, or MSc.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of community-based mental health services.
• Provide psychiatric assessment and treatment for young people.

Skills

Multidisciplinary Team Involvement

Multi-agency Working

Therapeutic Techniques (CBT, DBT)

Education

Full GMC Registration

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCPsych or equivalent

Job description

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

10 sessions per week (Full time/ Part time sessions considered) Job ref 319-7045430NR-A

Site Albion Road Resource Centre Town North Shields Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum (pro-rata if part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you :

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic, forward-thinking individuals who can work within the Trust and with partners to develop a dynamic, responsive and patient centred service

North Tyneside CAMHS is part of the Child Health business unit in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. There are close working relationships with paediatric colleagues and other professionals including psychiatric liaison team and crisis team to develop and deliver high quality clinical services. The Trust is held up as an exemplar for many areas of service provision and has twice been rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC in successive inspections.

North Tyneside CAMHS is a forward-thinking service providing a high-quality community mental health services for young people under the age of 18. The service currently has 5 WTE consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists, 1 WTE consultant clinical psychologist and 1 WTE consultant nurse. At any given time there are up to two junior doctors (Specialty registrar/GPVTS). The consultant team work with experienced psychology, psychotherapy, nursing and allied health professional colleagues to provide a comprehensive CAMH service. There is also a team of non- medical nurse prescribers who provide care including prescribing and monitoring of medication for young people with an ADHD diagnosis.

Main duties of the job

The service is currently arranged into teams that provide: access for the triage of all referrals reaching the service, the assessment and treatment for emotional disorders, neurodevelopmental assessment and diagnosis, the treatment of ADHD and eating disorders.

On call is currently a 1 in 8 on call to a range of professionals in North Tyneside. The Psychiatric Liaison Team ( PLT ) provided by the local mental health trust provides first line on call to urgent mental health assessments 7 days a week and also completes all the liaison work on the local paediatric unit.

The post-holder will be expected to actively involved in providing clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team, to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment where clinically appropriate and case management of high-risk presentations. There is also the opportunity to develop specialist clinical interests as well as participating in audit and clinical governance.

In this role, you'll combine clinical expertise with sound strategic acumen and inspiring leadership to develop and oversee the delivery of the very best care across this growing service.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will participate in the provision of specialist child and adolescent mental health services to young people under the age of 18 years in North Tyneside.

Along with other consultant colleagues, the post-holder will be expected to take clinical lead/responsibility for developing and delivering a comprehensive, needs led, community based mental health service. This will involve developing relationships with designated GPs, primary health care teams, community child health, safeguarding teams, education and children services.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration or eligibility to be included on the register and holding a current licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of gaining CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Section 12 approval/ Approved Clinician Status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MD, PHD, Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
• MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Additional clinical qualifications

Experience

• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement
• Evidence of effective multi-agency working
• Specific additional therapy training (e.g. Positive Behavioural Support, CBT, systemic therapy, DBT etc.)

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Julie Owens Job title Clinical Lead/Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0191 219 6685 Additional information

Angela Brown, Operational Services Manager

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