CYPMHS Medical Lead
2 days ago
Hertford
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., • Review referrals and determine appropriateness for admission, • Conduct Admission assessment and ensure effective management plans, • To participate in the assessment and management of children and young people referred to the Service, • To conduct risk assessment and review regularly, • To assess physical health, • To provide leadership, supervision, reflection, and risk management to the key workers on the team, • To 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., • To supervise non-training grade doctors and psychiatric trainees allocated to the teams., • To 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., • To 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., • To establish effective working relationships with GPs, CYPMHS community teams, specialists and commissioners., • To uphold the principles of Clinical Governance and adhere to the organisation’s clinical governance requirements., • To take part in an Annual Appraisal Programme, with the development of Personal Development Plans, focused on Continuing Professional Development., • Registered on the GMC Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a licence to practise. 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 Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 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.