Inpatient Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist

Do you love caring for young people and children, and want an opportunity to join a brand-new 12-bedded CAMHS service in Surrey!

If you’re looking to progress your career and be part a new and exciting partnership venture between Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Elysium Healthcare, while making a vital contribution to the lives of young people aged 13-18 with general mental health Tier 4 presentations including disordered eating. 

As a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist employed by Elysium Healthcare but seconded to SABP through the hybrid clinical and operational model, you will deliver an evidence-based and focused treatment plan to support the children and young people, and their families, as they progress through their care plans to understand eating behaviours and restore physical health. 

You will work alongside the talented and experienced multidisciplinary team to create tailored treatment programmes to support the individual needs of each young person within a warm and nurturing environment. This will allow you to understand symptoms, patterns and origins of psychological distress. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Review referrals and determine appropriateness for admission
• Conduct admission assessments and maintain effective management plans of all young people on the unit
• Conduct risk assessments and review regularly
• Allocate specialist psychological treatments in line with individual needs
• Assess physical health
• Ensuring effective liaison with referring teams
• Facilitating regular CPA review meeting
• Act as Responsible Clinician for young people detained under the Mental Health Act
• Involvement in quality, inspections and governance processes

You will also be required to take part in the On Call Consultant rota.

To be successful in this role, you'll need

• Registered on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with a licence to practice
• Experience of CAMHS Forensic and/or Eating Disorders desirable

What you will get 

• Annual salary of £160,000
• £10,000 signing on bonus!
• £8,400 car allowance
• The equivalent of 30 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and on-site parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check, holiday financing and much more. 

About your next employer

You will be working as an employee of Elysium Healthcare, which is an established, stable and agile company with 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. 

Within this role and as part of the partnership with SABP, you will be seconded to SABP which will hold responsibility for clinical leadership, day-to-day clinical assurance, CQC registration and commissioning oversight (through the CAMHS Tier 4 Provider Collaborative function) and directly employ the therapeutic and quality roles. Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental health problems, drug and alcohol problems and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire for people of all ages.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.