Consultant CAMHS EDU Psychiatrist inStafford inStafford PUBLISHED 9 DEC 2023

What you'll be doing:

Clinical

• Leading the multidisciplinary team that undertakes screening assessments for admissions to the service.
• Leading the multidisciplinary team in the care and treatment of our patients, including weekly ward round review, risks assessment and ongoing treatment plans
• Attend family meetings, case review meetings and discharge planning meetings as required
• Ensure clinical documentation is robust and up to date
• Practise evidence-based care through national standards and guidelines
• Provide supervision to specialty doctors
• Prepare for and participate in external reviews (CQC and Quality Network reviews)
• Participation in on-call rota (second on-call – 1 in 3)

Management 

• Attendance of the hospital wide Clinical Governance Group (monthly)
• Attendance, and contribution to, the group wide Mental Health Clinical Governance Group (quarterly).
• Participate in service development, through research, innovation and local audit.
• Continue strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, particularly our partners in the NHS (as Ivetsey Bank sites within the West Midlands Provider Collaborative for CAMHS)
• Supervision and support of the site based specialty doctor.
• Engagement in National Networks
• Ongoing personal development through CPD and annual appraisal (and adhering to the GMC’s “Good Medical Practice”
• Regular review of prescribing practices in conjunction with Ashton’s E-Prescribing reports and engagement with Ashton’s site based pharmacist.

What you'll have:

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• MRCPsych (Required)
• CAMHS CCT or CESR (Required) or evidence of pathway for imminent completion
• Approved Clinician and Section 12 Approved (Required)
• Working within an inpatient CAMHS Eating Disorders setting
• Evidenced based practice
• Confidence in engaging internal and external stakeholders
• Patient centred, outcomes-based care

Working Environment 

• Requirement for 22.5hrs per week (three days)
• Full time junior doctor support
• Site based clinical governance and Medical Advisory Committee Meeting
• Opportunity to develop leadership skills through the existing Group wide committee meetings (e.g. Research and Development and Drugs and Therapeutics Committee)
• Participation in second tier Consultant on-call rota

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the 
  Active Learning Hub 
  and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• 
  Active Reward App
   giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential 
  Employee Assistance Programme Helpline &  App 
  to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A 
  Nest Personal Pension
   account
• Access to join a 
  Medicash Health Plan
   for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding 
  Active Behaviours
   via the 
  Active Awards
   programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• 
  Refer a Friend
   
  Scheme
   and earn yourself up to 
  £1000
   by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Come and join one of the UK's largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people -no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone. We are offering a £10,000* Welcome Bonus for this role!

Active Care Group are seeking to employ a Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist with in-patient experience to join the MDT on Wedgewood Ward, our six bedded Tier 4 CAMHS ED service. The site based medical team will be made up of two employed consultants and three specialty doctors, alongside already established MDT members. This position is part time - 3 days per week. Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status and CCT accreditation in CAMHS Psychiatry or within six months of obtaining CCT, with experience of CAMHS eating disorders psychiatry are essential.