This joint post with the University of Worcester and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust sits within the NIHR-funded Mental Health Inequities Research Unit. The postholder leads child and adolescent mental health research, secures external funding and supervises doctoral researchers, alongside a consultant psychiatry role. The work splits three clinical days in Redditch CAMHS and two university days, at Clinical Professor or Associate Professor level. Applicants need GMC Specialist Register status and Approved Clinician status, or the ability to achieve it within three months.
What the job involves
- Develop a coherent child and adolescent mental health research programme aligned with clinical expertise and MHIRU priorities
- Lead applications for substantial external funding and act as chief or principal investigator on funded studies
- Produce internationally excellent or world-leading research outputs and support their translation into policy and practice
- Supervise doctoral researchers and mentor early career and research-active colleagues
- Contribute to research capacity and culture within the University
- Build partnerships across universities, the NHS, the Integrated Care System, public health, voluntary and community organisations, and people with lived experience
- Contribute to journals, funding bodies, committees and national or international networks
- Provide consultant psychiatry care with the Community Core CAMHS team in Redditch for three days a week
- Deliver multidisciplinary working, clinical governance, quality improvement, service development, education and professional leadership
- Cover consultant duties when required
- Travel to other Trust sites, with a blend of face-to-face and remote working
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS, MBChB or equivalent
- Higher research degree, normally a PhD or equivalent
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with licence to practise, in good standing
- On the GMC Specialist Register or within six months of inclusion
- Approved Clinician status, or the ability to achieve it within three months
Experience
- Strong research outputs
- Successful delivery of mental health research
- Experience of NIHR research infrastructure
- Track record of securing external funding
- Doctoral supervision
- Research leadership
Other
- Sustained track record at professorial scale, quality and significance for Clinical Professor level
What’s offered
- Jointly agreed job plan, reviewed at least annually
- Continuing professional development
- Annual consultant appraisal and revalidation
- Mentoring by the Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Research
- Access to researcher development and external training
- Postgraduate teaching provided by the Trust
- Consultant peer group
- Occupational health and staff wellbeing support
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
