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Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Main area: Adolescent Inpatient Unit
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent: 32 – 40 hours per week (negotiable)
Hours: Full time / Part time
Job ref: 173-00125-MED
Site: Red Kite View Central Town Leeds
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 20/02/2025
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Job overview
We are delighted to recruit a dynamic Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to provide consultant leadership to the Award-winning Red Kite View Adolescent inpatient unit in West Yorkshire.
The service supports young people experiencing significant psychiatric, psychological or emotional problems that are causing them interpersonal, educational and social functioning difficulties. The service team will work closely with community mental health teams and other services across West Yorkshire to support young peoples’ mental health including the NHS, local authorities and third sector providers.
Main duties of the job
Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.
Here at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.
The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:
* Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
* Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
* Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services
As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide.
Working for our organisation
LYPFT are in the process of agreeing in partnership a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants which aims to be agreed soon. This post will be in scope for the new consultant salary range once agreed.
In addition to this, we offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:
* Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract
* On-site parking
* Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
* Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits
This is a 5 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.
As well as the offer of financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you; do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.
*subject to conditions.
What you will get:
* Supportive and friendly colleagues
* Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
* Weekly academic teaching
* Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
* Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will join another full time Consultant psychiatrist to look after 16 General Adolescent beds. There is also a 6 bedded PICU which is covered by another full time consultant. They will be further supported by 2 full time specialty doctors and psychiatric trainees. As a new unit, this is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the shaping of a gold-standard service.
Person specification
* Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement in various settings
* Excellent knowledge in specialty demonstrating the use of bio-psycho-social perspective and wider medical knowledge
* Ability to work in and lead MDT work demonstrating leadership qualities and abilities in the application with clear examples of MDT working
* Participated in research or service evaluation with examples of publication or demonstration of a project in application leading to service development or improvement
* Ability to deliver teaching and training, demonstrating in application about teaching and training medical students, trainees, other members of the MDT. Bonus points for training non-medical prescribers or any other non-medical professionals towards service improvement such as Physician Associates.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service; DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
LYPFT is committed to upholding its statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates' best interest to apply as soon as possible.
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