Job summary
This is a temporary Consultant Psychiatrist role at Elysium Healthcare's Cotswold Spa Hospital, a small and established CAMHS Eating Disorder service in Worcestershire. The role involves leading a team of professionals to provide high-quality care for 12 young people with eating disorders, as well as collaborating with NHS clinicians and commissioners. The position offers a competitive salary, signing bonus, and a range of benefits including flexibility, relocation support, and excellent career development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be responsible for ensuring that people admitted to the Cotswold Spa Hospital are assessed, treated, and discharged safely. This includes medication management, quality assurance, complaints and co-production, and the delivery of NICE guidance. You will also lead and manage the CPA and ICR process to ensure full compliance with quality standards. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will be the clinical expert from a medical perspective, supporting the team and collaborating with NHS clinicians and commissioners.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for growth and career progression. Elysium Healthcare is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Consultant, you’ll know what it means to lead a team. To always strive for better. Better care, a better you, a better service.
As a Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, you’ll know how to best help the twelve young people with eating disorders in our care (plus 4 additional day service users).
Working hours a week over 4 or 5 days alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will be the clinical expert from a medical perspective to ensure best practice care is delivered whilst supporting the team. You will also work collaboratively with NHS clinicians and commissioners.
Cotswold Spa Hospital is a small, friendly and established CAMHS Eating Disorder service in the village of Broadway, nestled in the Worcestershire countryside, with a team that works well together and supports each other - which offers compressed hours flexibility, working a day from home per week and a relocation package of £8,000.
When you work for Elysium Healthcare as a Consultant Psychiatrist, you have access to a large and supportive peer group of like-minded professionals to engage and network with, as well as a range of benefits and excellent range of career development opportunities.
Key Responsibilities of the Consultant Psychiatrist include:
1. Ensure that people admitted are assessed, treated, and discharged safely
2. Medication management
3. Quality assurance, complaints and co-production
4. Delivery of NICE guidance
5. Lead and manage the CPA and ICR process to ensure full compliance with quality standards
Essential qualifications and experience
6. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
7. Full GMC registration with licence to practice
8. MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
9. On the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or be accepted within 6 months
10. Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status
11. Clinical training and experience required for gaining UK CCT.
12. Widespread and detailed experience of assessment and management of patients in Child and Adolescent psychiatry
13. Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
What you will get:
14. Competitive annual salary
15. £8,400 car allowance
16. £10,000 signing on fee
17. One day working from home
18. 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
19. A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution
20. Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
21. Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
22. Free meals while on duty
23. Employee Assistance Services
24. Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
25. Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
26. Voluntary benefits
27. Medical indemnity cover
There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.
About your next employer
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
28. The essential qualifications and experience for this role include an MBBS or equivalent medical qualification, full GMC registration with a licence to practice, MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent, and being on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or accepted within 6 months. You must also have Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status, and clinical training and experience required for gaining a UK CCT. Widespread and detailed experience in the assessment and management of patients in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is also required, as well as the ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care.