Are you passionate about transforming young lives through expert psychiatric care? Join Rhodes Wood Hospital, a supportive and experienced team as a Medical Lead within our Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), providing specialist care for young people aged 12 to 18 with eating disorders. You will work in a service that delivers evidence-based, individualised treatment programmes designed to meet each young person’s unique needs.
What You’ll Be Doing
As our Medical Lead, you will play a central role in driving clinical excellence and ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care.
* Provide strategic leadership, ensuring consistent, high‑quality standards of care and fidelity to our clinical model.
* Champion a positive, recovery‑focused and trauma‑informed culture, influencing practice across the unit.
* Represent the medical team at governance meetings, service development discussions, and external stakeholder forums.
* Oversee medical input into audits, QI projects and service evaluations, ensuring learning and improvement are embedded in everyday practice.
* Offer professional leadership, supervision, and support to Consultant Psychiatrists and Associate Specialists within the service.
* Coordinate medical cover, ensuring safe, effective clinical staffing across the unit.
* Lead medical workforce processes, including recruitment, induction and appraisal.
As a CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be required to:
* Review referrals and determine appropriateness for admission
* Conduct Admission assessment and ensure effective management plans
* Participate in the assessment and management of children and young people referred to the Service
* Conduct risk assessment and review regularly
* Assess physical health
* Provide leadership, supervision, reflection, and risk management to the key workers on the team
* Abide by, and contribute to, the governance arrangements and processes of the service. This includes providing a culturally competent practice, appropriate record keeping, and discharging duties under the safeguarding children agenda.
* Supervise non‑training grade doctors and psychiatric trainees allocated to the teams.
* Enact cross cover arrangements for annual, study and professional leave, with the other child and adolescent psychiatrists in the department.
* Participation in the CYPMHS Consultant on‑call duty rota.
* Participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
* An interest in research and a willingness to supervise trainees will be encouraged.
* Establish effective working relationships with GPs, CYPMHS community teams, specialists and commissioners.
* Uphold the principles of Clinical Governance and adhere to the organisation’s clinical governance requirements.
* Take part in an Annual Appraisal Programme, with the development of Personal Development Plans, focused on Continuing Professional Development.
* Adhere to all the organisations policies and procedures.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* Registered on the GMC Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a licence to practise.
* Experience of CYPMHS Eating Disorders
What You’ll Get
At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:
* Competitive annual salary
* £5000 car allowance
* £10,000 signing on fee
* 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
* A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution
* Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
* Voluntary benefits
* Medical indemnity cover
* Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one‑stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work‑life balance
* Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
* Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
* Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
* 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
* Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
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.
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