Consultant Psychiatrist In Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

As a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high quality care through multidisciplinary team.
Working both autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will lead the multidisciplinary team as Consultant Psychiatrist to offer assessment and management to children and young people with complex mental disorders.
You will be working in multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment
You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team to deliver excellent care.
This post currently attracts a 10% R&R payment (which will be reviewed next year)
The post holder will be expected to provide Psychiatric/Medical expertise and where appropriate leadership for colleagues. Some of the core clinical work the post holder is expected to provide include:

• Participation in initial, emergency response and partnership assessments and management.
• Participating in consultations with clinicians and medical team within the team and also with other agencies.
• Participating in duty or emergency rota with clinicians and psychiatrist within the team.
• Reviewing patients prescribed medications and completing repeat prescriptions as required.

The post holder will also be expected to contribute to risk assessment and care management of patients they have reviewed through an understanding and implementation of the Mental Capacity and Mental Health Acts where appropriate.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The post holder will be expected to agree a job plan with the Clinical Director, CAMHS on taking up the post. There may be some flexibility to allow a suitable candidate to be involved in some academic and research interests.
The 10 programmed activity job plan will include:
Out-patient reviews, leadership, supervision to team staff and contributing to MDT meetings
Supervision to trainees
Undertaking mental health act assessments
Administration, audit and training as appropriate
Attendance at Continuing Professional Development meetings and
mandatory training events.
The post holder will be expected to supervise and teach the medical staff on the team as well as medical student and occasional teaching to other professionals on the team. There is an expectation to attend and contribute to the post-graduate teaching for trainees on Tuesday morning
At least once a year the post holder will be expected to undertake expert led sessions to contribute towards teaching and training of junior doctors.
The post holder is expected to participate in Trust clinical governance and is responsible for ensuring that standards are adhered to in their team, through regular clinical audit. Service evaluation and patient feedback should be a regular part of the team’s duties in order to plan for future service development.
The postholder will lead and manage their teams in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning. They will utilise a quality improvement approach to think systemically about complex problems, develop potential change ideas and test these in practice using a systematic QI methodology.
The postholder will empower their teams to resolve local issues on a daily basis using the tools and method of quality improvement without staff having to seek permission.
They will also promote awareness and understanding of quality improvement, and shares learning and successes from quality improvement work.
To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Trust’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
Please see job description for further details.