Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year. As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit. You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including: Great flexible working opportunities Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme Generous annual leave and pension scheme Extensive staff health and well-being programmes Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for us to appoint a full time Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The post will be based in the Tier 4 Mental Health Unit at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. The appointee will work full time within Sunflower House, our Tier 4 Mental Health Unit. The consultant is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service. The post holder will have the opportunity to take on the role of clinical supervisor for a trainee and/or trust grade doctor based within the service. For further information related to this role, please refer to the job description Main duties of the job The appointee will work full time within Sunflower House, our Tier 4 Mental Health Unit. The consultant is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service. The post holder will have the opportunity to take on the role of clinical supervisor for a trainee and/or trust grade doctor based within the service. For further information related to this role, please refer to the job description Advert · The consultant psychiatrist is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service. · The postholder will offer a psychiatry view to the triage of all new referrals. They will offer senior oversight and psychiatric formulation and opinion to contribute to MDT thinking of all cases considered and seen by the team. · The postholder will hold psychiatric responsibility for all inpatients and day patients – this will involve completion of psychiatric assessments, formulations and management plans. The psychiatrist will hold responsibility for initiation and monitoring of all medication treatments. The postholder is the responsible clinician for the patients. · To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Trust’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework. The post holder will supervise one junior doctor in this role ( Deanery Higher Specialty Trainee (St 3). Working for our organisation Sunflower House (previously Dewi Jones Unit) is a tier 4 mental health unit for Children and Young People up to the age of 13. The team have recently moved into a purpose built facility on site at Alder Hey with 12 specially designed bedrooms, and a family bedroom providing a safe and high quality place to stay. We also have a therapy garden, calming sensory room, an immersive room and many other facilities to allow young people to access lift skills sessions and therapy. We have a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team including nurses, social workers, family therapy, psychotherapy and psychiatry. The team are focused on developing the very best outcome for children and young people. As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility. Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about this role, please refer to the job description and person specification We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at [email protected] or call 0151 282 4599 Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application. Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.