Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health trust in Aylesbury seeks a qualified professional to manage complex ADHD cases, provide clinical assessments, and lead the development of the ADHD Clinic. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in clinical leadership and experience supervising medical staff. This role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive team that prioritizes care and inclusivity.

Benefits

Thorough induction process

Flexible working options

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience managing complex ADHD cases.
• Capable of providing clinical input and assessments.
• Experience in supervising junior medical staff is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of young people with ADHD.
• Provide clinical input for assessments.
• Lead the development of the ADHD Clinic model.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Experience with ADHD cases

Supervision skills

Teaching skills

Education

Medical degree and relevant specialization

Job description

Responsibilities

The post-holder will be responsible for a caseload of young people requiring management of their ADHD. These will typically be cases where there is a higher level of complexity involved in the management of the young person. They will also provide 2 PAs of clinical input into the neurodevelopmental assessment pathway, completing 1 to 2 assessments a week and contributing to a weekly post-assessment MDT meeting.

In addition, they will provide clinical leadership in continuing to develop the ADHD Clinic model in partnership with relevant operational managers. They will contribute to group supervision of the non‑medical prescribers. They will supervise an experienced staff grade doctor. There are opportunities for teaching medical students and resident doctors.

About the Service

Buckinghamshire CAMHS is a welcoming and inclusive service. There is an established group of substantive consultants and senior managers who would be available to provide support to the post-holder. We would encourage interested applicants to contact us to discuss the post and the service in more detail.

Benefits and Working Conditions

• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We're advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world‑renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.

About the Trust

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti‑racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under‑represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio‑economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.