Job vacancy: Consultant Child and Adolescent Liaison Psychiatrist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

Job summary

Main area: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 321-CON-MS-6256518-S5

Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: John Radcliffe Hospital
Town: Oxford
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 Dependent on Experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/07/2024 23:59

Consultant Child and Adolescent Liaison Psychiatrist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

The overall aim of the service is to provide state-of-the-art integration of psychiatry into paediatric psychological and medical services in order to improve patient care and outcomes. The Children’s Psychological Medicine service as a whole has on average 1000 inpatient and 1500 outpatient referrals per year. The Children’s hospital comprises six different wards, there is also a paediatric ward at the Horton General Hospital and a day-unit service as part of the Oxford Centre for Children and Young People in Pain at Douglas House. The Children’s Hospital also has a neonatal unit and a paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and a High Dependency Unit (PHDU).

The specific aims are to:

Improve the recognition and management of any co-morbid psychiatric conditions in inpatients
Enhance the skills and confidence of nursing and medical staff in recognising and managing psychiatric problems themselves
Advise wards and paediatric team on managing complex emotional and behavioural presentations in patients and their caregivers
Improve patient outcomes and help to ensure appropriate discharge arrangements
Offer specialist and integrated outpatient care subject to the interests of the candidate and the needs of the service

As a key component of the role the post holder will work collaboratively with consultants in paediatrics, and across CPM in the management of complex cases including those with medically unexplained symptoms and complex somatic symptom and related disorders and will be a resource to the medical team in considering the management and treatment of these patients.

The post-holder will be encouraged to build and maintain close links with agencies outside of OUH including the local and regional CAMHS services in order to facilitate best outcomes for those patients with long-term mental health needs. The post-holder will be encouraged to get involved in the strategic service development.

On call

There is currently no out-of-hours on-call associated with this post.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

Recognised Medical Degree
MRCPsych or equivalent
CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview. Trained safeguarding Level 3 Child Protection
Full GMC registration and licence to practise

Desirable criteria

CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview. Trained safeguarding Level 3 Child Protection

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant recent experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Evidence of ability to make decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable criteria

Experience of working within Paediatric services and/or with complex somatic symptom disorders.
Previous experience of working at consultant level.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent leadership skills.
Effective administrative and time management skills.
Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
Good written English.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training to those with and without specific mental health experience/training.
Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and QI activities
Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and QI activities

Desirable criteria

Management qualification.
Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS
Evidence of additional relevant skills
Education qualification
Experience as a clinical or educational supervisor
Peer reviewed publications

Other Requirements

Desirable criteria

Transport: Driving licence

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.

Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

JD Approved Consultant Child and Adolescent Liaison Psychiatrist (PDF, 680.3KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Dr Isabel Paz
Job title: Clinical Lead for Children's Psych Med
Email address: [email protected]

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Consultant Child and Adolescent Liaison Psychiatrist

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