Overview
Medical Director & Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist Jobs in Lichfield – England – UK at Oakburn Samuel
Title: Medical Director & Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist
Company: Oakburn Samuel
Location: Lichfield – England – UK
Category: Healthcare, Doctor/Physician
Position: Medical Director & Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist £40K Welcome signing Bonus
Job description
Staffordshire – Wolverhampton – Telford
190K to 210K
Immediate Start
Oakburn Samuel has been retained with one of the leading Healthcare provider to recruit for a Medical Director & Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) with additional Eating Disorder unit, for Hospital based in Staffordshire.
This role would be ideal for a candidate with Medical Director experience or a senior Consultant Psychiatrist looking for
career progression
. Oakburn Samuel would be delighted to speak to you if you’ve previously worked for the NHS or the private sector.
The Hospital is a CAMHS unit for children and young people with illnesses such as eating disorders, and other complex mental health conditions, such as psychosis, bipolar disorder and emerging personality disorder. Any candidates in Stafford or Wolverhampton and Telford will be ideal for travel reasons.
The duties in this role include:
Medical Director
• Provide line management and professional accountability for other medical colleagues on site.
• Work closely with the Hospital Director and site SMT to ensure the service is clinically safe, well led, effective and compliant with all CQC / NHSE regulatory requirements.
• Lead on / support / advise on any serious medical incident investigations / root cause analysis investigations, safeguarding referrals, etc.
• Provide clear
leadership
on clinical standards for the Hospital and to take specific responsibility for specific quality measures, at the minimum: prescribing errors, compliance with the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act, quality of the MDT meetings, risk assessments and risk management strategies.
Consultant Psychiatrist
• Taking clinical responsibility for patients including
multidisciplinary
ward rounds, risk reviews, strategic reviews and the development of a therapeutic milieu.
• Fulfilling the role of Responsible Clinician to young people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007). Medically responsible under the Mental Health Act for the medical treatment of all of the young people on their ward.
• Review each of the young people at least weekly and that these assessments are documented.
• The post holder will be expected to take part in and supervise medically related audits and present these to the audit meeting and Clinical Governance.
• The post holder will be expected to lead the clinical team effectively, direct treatment, liaise with referrers, commissioners and all external agencies relating to the young person’s care.
• To take part in a second on-call rota (telephone support only)
Candidates will have:
• Full GMC registration
• The post holder must be on the specialist register and have sufficient experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to be confident in discharging their clinical responsibilities to the young people on their ward.
• The post holder is required to be an approved clinician under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007).
• Maintaining CPD and revalidation requirements…
