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Consultant Psychiatrist - In-patient CAMHS

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
Per Annum
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Consultant
Deadline
08 Aug 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
11 Jul 2025

Job overview

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for a permanent role at Parkview Clinic, treating children and adolescents up to 18. Parkview is part of a wider inpatient service, including 2 General Adolescent Units and a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit. The clinic was rated ‘GOOD’ overall in its latest CQC inspection, with all domains also rated ‘GOOD’.

The post holder will provide senior psychiatric input and medical leadership within a multidisciplinary inpatient team, delivering psychiatric assessments, treatment, and medical risk management for inpatients and their families. They will support quality improvement and clinical governance alongside the medical lead and professional leads. Close collaboration with other consultant psychiatrists and medical staff at Parkview is expected.

The role includes specialist consultation, peer supervision of medical and non-medical colleagues, and junior doctor supervision. Strategically, the post holder will engage with Tier 4 and Mental Health Services leadership and management. There is also the  potential to assume additional duties as Medical Director.

Main duties of the job

The clinical duties of the post holder will be to support the Tier 4 (T4) redesign and changing demands across the T4 services. The successful candidate together with the other T4 Consultants will provide a tertiary referral service for the assessment and treatment of adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders that may as part of their management need treatment on an inpatient unit.  The post holder will provide medical leadership and inpatient treatment for adolescents on inpatient unit working closely alongside the Medical Lead. The post holder will also work closely with West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative.

The successful candidate will be able to take a role together with the other Consultants in the planning and development of the T4 Inpatient Service provided by the Children’s Hospital. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the development of safe policies and procedures alongside a staff group that is relatively new and to help to facilitate the development of a wide range of skills, knowledge and expertise to ensure the delivery of care on a multidisciplinary basis is of the highest standard.

The Mental Health Service has its own senior leadership team, which is responsible for the implementation of all aspects of Trust policy and Clinical Governance/Quality initiatives within mental health service. The leadership team at the Parkview clinic meets with the MHS SLT Team regularly to discuss strategic and trust wide operational matters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities