Consultant post on Forest House, a 16-bed adolescent inpatient unit in Radlett for young people aged 13 to 18, which also takes eating disorder admissions. The consultant joins one other substantive consultant and a senior leadership team, managing and supervising junior doctors while contributing to clinical governance and service planning. The work is specialist inpatient care with acute admissions, set within a planned admission process linked to the local Tier 3 CAMHS team. Fit depends on a GMC licence to practise and Section 12(2) approval.
What the job involves
- Manage, appraise and professionally supervise junior medical staff, including assessing competences under the MMC framework
- Ensure junior doctors work within New Deal parameters and the Working Time Directive
- Deliver the highest standards of clinical care on the unit
- Contribute to operational management and clinical governance alongside the senior leadership team
- Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care
- Record clinical activity accurately and submit it promptly to the Information Department
- Take part in service and business planning for the locality and the wider mental health service
- Take part in annual consultant appraisal and annual job plan review
- Attend and take part in the Trust academic programme and internal CPD, including lectures and seminars
- Comply with Trust policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions
- Take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director in preparing service plans
- Share the medical contribution to management with consultant colleagues and work with local managers
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Higher qualification in psychiatry, such as MRCPsych or an RCPsych-approved equivalent
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at appointment
- CCT in psychiatry, GMC Specialist Register inclusion, or within six months of CCT/CESR at interview
Experience
- Experience of the full range of consultant clinical responsibilities in child and adolescent services
- Close collaborative and multidisciplinary working with social care and other agencies
- Working with service users who have complex needs in child and adolescent services
- Broad psychiatric practice and use of psychological therapies
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Managing clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Evidence-based decision-making that includes the contribution of others
- Knowledge of safeguarding in child and adolescent mental health
Checks & eligibility
- Full valid driving licence and access to a car, unless disabled as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Other
- Ability to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Continuous professional development, research or service evaluation, and clinical audit
Nice to have
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Relevant higher degree such as MD, PhD or MSc, or other additional clinical qualifications
- Good standing with the GMC, with no warnings or conditions on practice
- Wide specialist and sub-specialist experience within the NHS or a comparable service
- Ability to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching relevant to the post
- Experience in clinical research or service evaluation
- Evidence of achievement in education, research and audit, such as awards or publications, including audits that led to service change
- Experience of organising and overseeing psychotherapy training for psychiatry trainees
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
