Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 411-COM-24-6200164
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Babbage House, Innovation Park
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/05/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Based at Innovation Park, L7
Full time (although part time/less than full time will be considered)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for us to appoint a full time Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The post will be based within the Liverpool CAMHS team at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
The consultant is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service. The postholder will have the opportunity to take on the role of clinical supervisor for a trainee and/or trust grade doctor based within the service.
The appointee will work full time within Liverpool CAMHS and will have a case load of approximately 60 young people. One day per week will be job planned for non-clinical activities.
For further information related to this role, please refer to the job description
Working for our organisation
About Liverpool CAMHS
The team provide support to Children and Young People up to the age of 18 with a Liverpool GP, as well as their families and professionals involved in their care. The team comprises of four multi-disciplinary teams which include staff from varied backgrounds, including psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing and psychotherapy. In addition, our team members are trained in a wealth of different therapeutic interventions and approaches, making the teams truly multi-disciplinary.
We work very closely with the 24hr Crisis Care Team, Eating Disorder team and Sefton CAMHS colleagues, Community Paediatrics, Hospital Paediatrics, Allied Health Professionals and Social Care to provide a comprehensive service for Children and Young People.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role, please refer to the job description and person specification
Person specification
Eduation and Training
Essential criteria
- - Full GMC registration, licence to practice with inclusion on GMC specialist register (or eligible for or within 6 months of eligibility for)
- - Primary medical degree
- - MRCPsych
- - Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- - Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- - Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
- - Additional clinical qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- - Excellent knowledge in specialty
- - Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- - Excellent oral and written English communication skills
- - Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- - Ability to make decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- - Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- - Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
Skills
Essential criteria
- - Ability to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
- - Ability to work in, and lead a team
- - Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff
- - Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload and that of others.
- - Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to relate to patients and carers from a wide range of backgrounds and to empathise with their needs and concerns.
- Evidence of being a team player and effective communicator as part of a multiagency team
- - Leadership: ability to develop a vision and lead the change that brings it into effect within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context
- - Effective time management, ability to work under pressure
- - Well-developed reflective and self-care skills and ability to foster these attributes in others
- - Ability to share knowledge and difficulties with colleagues
Desirable criteria
- - Awards/presentations/ publications
- - Experienced in clinical research/service evaluation
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- - Self-motivated to set and achieve targets
- - Flexible in regard to teamwork
- - Effective member of multidisciplinary team
- - Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
- - Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to the development of a high quality service
- - Flexible, adaptable, thorough and resilient
- - Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to clinical governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sally Al Bachari
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Psychiatry
- Email address
- [email protected]
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