Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Job overview

The Toucan West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC) is seeking to recruit a Consultant Psychiatrist who is committed to working with children and young people with complex mental health needs. This post will provide the medical leadership within a forming team who are transforming access to/from T4 services.

The Consultant will provide a central West Midlands system role delivering several psychiatric assessments for a caseload of complex patients. You will be taking a lead role with a strong team of clinical nurse specialists together you will be providing a coordinated approach to undertaking psychiatric & medical risk management of CYP referred to and step down fromT4. The Consultant will join the IROC team, contributing to the continuous development of the exciting transformation of these services.

Main duties of the job

The principal duties will include the following:

• Consultant Psychiatrist input to the IROC Team.
• To assess and treat patients presenting with complex psychological, behaviours and emotional needs and who are being deprived of their liberty for their safety. This may include:
• Psychiatric assessment of patients.
• Working within the MDT to develop formulation of complex cases with medical and psychiatric needs.
• To contribute to risk assessment and management in liaison with the residential team.
• Treating and monitoring of psychiatric aspects of mental illness, including core psychopathology and psychiatric co-morbidities
• A further component of the post is to maintain links with Psychiatric and secure inpatient settings to build positive working relationships, to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and safe discharge planning if required with other members of the WMCPC team.
• The post holder will be required to be approved under Section 12 (2) of the Mental Health Act (MHA). He / She will be expected to be able to undertake MHA assessments as appropriate.
• Working in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team and provide clinical and medical leadership with the wider Provider collaborative.
• He/she will provide supervision to any junior medical staff allocated to the team.
• Contribute to WMCPC research and development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.

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.