Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This post will provide input into Harrogate part of the North Yorkshire and York service. Specifically, this service is commissioned by the North Yorkshire CCG.

It has a Single Point of Access service staffed by an experienced staff team who triage and provide a telephone consultation service to families and referrers. The SPA responds to all referrals and help young people and their families with the process of navigating through the options to find a service that meets their needs. The service works with a model of brief intervention to empower young people and their families in achieving good mental health and well-being. Staff job plans are designed to deliver services described in the TEWV Clinical Pathways, in order to provide high quality evidence-based care., The post holder will, with their consultant colleagues, see all presentations, requiring the input of a psychiatrist arising from the secondary schools and their feeder primary schools within the Harrogate sector. The consultant would expect to hold a caseload of around 60 based on current consultant caseload and would be asked to see approximately 1 new assessment per week. The service supports a model whereby all cases are co-worked with other members of the MDT, key worker role usually held by a non-psychiatrist, except where there is a formal mutual agreement that sole consultant input is required with other members of the multidisciplinary team.

The Consultant joining the team will be expected to work in accordance with GMC guidance for working in multiagency and multidisciplinary teams. The Consultant will be expected to work flexibly.

The post will follow a 4.5 PA (Direct Clinical Care), 2.5PA (Supporting Professional Activities) which includes a full PA for a specialist interest in research. This will allow the post holder to develop protected time each week to pursue additional interests such as medical education or leadership opportunities as well as the dedicated time specifically for developing research skills and activities.

We are Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. We provide mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages.

We deliver a range of community and in-patient care across adult mental health, children and young peoples services, mental health services for older people and forensic services. We have over 7,000 staff working across more than 90 sites.

With an annual operating income of over £420 million, we work in partnership with local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary organisations, the private sector, as well as people who use our services, their families and carers.

Geographically were one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, spanning County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby.

There are two group localities; Durham & Tees Valley (which includes forensic services) and North Yorkshire & York. In terms of clinical specialties, these comprise