Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - York

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; York; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Consultant Psychiatrist within a specialized mental health unit for adolescents. You will provide clinical leadership and work with a dedicated team to support young people facing significant mental health challenges. The role involves assessing and treating patients while collaborating with families and local networks, ensuring high-quality care in a dynamic environment. Excellent benefits and opportunities for professional development are included.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing support

Career development and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Essential qualifications in CAMHS.
• Experience in CAMHS psychiatry is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical assessments for young people in the North Yorkshire region.
• Provide treatment, including informal and formal under the mental health act.
• Work collaboratively with families and mental health professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Family collaboration

Education

CCT CAMHS

Job description

Mill Lodge is a 10 bedded mixed general adolescent inpatient unit with Willow View, a Day Unit for up to 8 young people with eating disorders attached. Both are commissioned by the Humber and North Yorkshire Provider Collaborative. The successful applicant will join the established 0.7 WTE Consultant Psychiatrist and will provide clinical leadership and senior psychiatric input into Mill Lodge with cross cover into Willow View.

The service supports young people who experience significant psychiatric, psychological and emotional difficulties that cause significant problems with interpersonal, educational and social functioning.

Main duties of the job

1. Access assessment for young people referred across the North Yorkshire region (the ideal candidate will be part of an access assessment team to lead and support the team to agree admissions, provide consultant assessments to decisions and recommendations when not suitable for admission and work with the provider collaborative partners to recommend suitable alternatives to admission).

2. Admit when necessary, alternatively divert to day care where appropriate, to provide assessment and treatment both informally and under the mental health act (the ideal candidate will act as RC leading the care and treatment of the YP under their care including all CPA/CETR and MHRT work as required).

3. Work with the family and other professional networks within the commissioning scope that has been agreed to (the ideal candidate will be a part of a governance team within the unit to influence co-production work with YP and family, will influence the need and desire to work with VCS partners in addition to established professional networks).

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment . This document provides you with information to help you apply.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [e-mail]

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• CCT CAMHS

Experience

Essential

• CAMHS psychiatry

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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