# Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Forest)

**Company**: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Radlett
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join our team at Forest House Adolescent Unit in Radlett, Hertfordshire. The successful applicant will work alongside a substantive consultant and a medical team composed of Specialty Doctors, GP trainees, Psychiatry Specialty and Core Trainees.

The post holder will complement and support the Senior Leadership Team to achieve the delivery of highest standards of care and contribute to operational management and clinical governance.

The clinics accept referrals from various sources, including General Practitioners, Social Workers, Health Visitors, and Consultant Paediatricians. Referrals are processed through SPA (the Single Point of Access).

The teams are multi-disciplinary, including Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Child Psychotherapists, Systemic Therapists, and Social Workers.

The Unit has recently been refurbished and extended to 16 beds to include acute admissions and it is an in-patient adolescent unit for East of England NHS.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing, appraising, and giving professional supervision to junior medical staff

- Ensuring junior medical staff operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant

- Undertaking administrative duties associated with patient care

- Recording clinical activity accurately and comprehensively

- Participating in service and business planning activity

- Participating in annual appraisal for consultants

- Attending and participating in the academic programme of the Trust and the team

- Maintaining professional registration with the General Medical Council

- Complying with the Trust's agreed policies, procedures, standing orders, and financial instructions

The salary range for this position is £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.

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## Skills

### Required
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Higher qualification in psychiatry such as MRCPsych
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise
- CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT/CESR
- Section 12/Approved clinician approval
- Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in child and adolescent service
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty

### Nice to have
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Relevant higher degree, e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Excellent degree of medical knowledge in relation to child and adolescent service

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