Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist inWorcestershire inWorcestershire PUBLISHED SUN 15 DEC 2024

This is a role for a Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist at Elysium Healthcare, a large and established healthcare provider with over 8,000 employees across England and Wales. The position is based in Worcestershire and offers a competitive annual salary, a £10,000 signing-on bonus, and a range of other attractive benefits.

As the Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be responsible for the clinical care and management of 12 young people with eating disorders, as well as 4 additional day service users. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team, providing medical expertise and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. Your key responsibilities will include assessing, treating, and safely discharging patients, managing medication, leading on quality assurance, and ensuring compliance with NICE guidelines. You will also collaborate closely with NHS clinicians and commissioners.

About us

As a Consultant, you’ll know what it means to lead a team. To always strive for better. Better care, a better you, a better service.

As a Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, you’ll know how to best help the twelve young people with eating disorders in our care (plus 4 additional day service users).

Working 37.5 hours a week over 4 or 5 days alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will be the clinical expert from a medical perspective to ensure best practice care is delivered whilst supporting the team. You will also work collaboratively with NHS clinicians and commissioners.

Cotswold Spa Hospital is a small, friendly and established CAMHS Eating Disorder service in the village of Broadway, nestled in the Worcestershire countryside, with a team that works well together and supports each other - which offers compressed hours flexibility, working a day from home per week and a relocation package of £8,000.

When you work for Elysium Healthcare as a Consultant Psychiatrist, you have access to a large and supportive peer group of like-minded professionals to engage and network with, as well as a range of benefits and excellent range of career development opportunities. 

Key Responsibilities of the Consultant Psychiatrist include:

• Ensure that people admitted are assessed, treated, and discharged safely
• Medication management
• Quality assurance, complaints and co-production
• Delivery of NICE guidance
• Lead and manage the CPA and ICR process to ensure full compliance with quality standards

Essential qualifications and experience

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Full GMC registration with licence to practice
• MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• On the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or be accepted within 6 months
• Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status
• Clinical training and experience required for gaining UK CCT.
• Widespread and detailed experience of assessment and management of patients in Child and Adolescent psychiatry
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

What you will get:

• Competitive annual salary
• £8,400 car allowance
• £10,000 signing on fee
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
• A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
• Free meals while on duty
• Employee Assistance Services
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Voluntary benefits
• Medical indemnity cover

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.