CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist Part-Time

This is a part-time CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist role at Rhodes Wood Hospital, providing specialist care for young people aged 12 to 18 with eating disorders. The role involves reviewing referrals, conducting admission assessments, ensuring effective management plans, and providing clinical leadership and supervision to the team. The successful candidate will have experience in CYPMHS Eating Disorders and be registered on the GMC Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

As a CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be responsible for reviewing referrals, conducting admission assessments, and ensuring effective management plans are in place. You will lead risk assessments, oversee physical health evaluations, and provide clinical leadership, supervision, and reflective practice for key workers within the team. Your role will include supervising non-training grade doctors and psychiatric trainees, participating in the on-call rota, and supporting cross-cover arrangements for colleagues during leave periods.

You will uphold governance standards, maintain accurate records, and ensure culturally competent practice aligned with safeguarding requirements. Collaboration with GPs, CYPMHS community teams, commissioners, and other stakeholders is essential to ensure continuity of care.

Elysium Healthcare is a leading provider of mental health, neurological, learning disabilities, and autism services in England and Wales. With over 8,000 employees and a global network of over 86,000 people, Elysium offers a wide range of opportunities for professional growth and development.

Are you passionate about transforming young lives through expert psychiatric care? Join Rhodes Wood Hospital, a supportive and experienced team as a CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist within our Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), providing specialist care for young people aged 12 to 18 with eating disorders.

As a Part-time Consultant Psychiatrist (3 days/week) you will work in a service that delivers evidence-based, individualised treatment programmes designed to meet each young person’s unique needs.

You will review referrals, conduct admission assessments, and ensure effective management plans are in place. You will lead risk assessments, oversee physical health evaluations, and provide clinical leadership, supervision, and reflective practice for key workers within the team. Your role will include supervising non-training grade doctors and psychiatric trainees, participating in the on-call rota (currently 1 in
6), and supporting cross-cover arrangements for colleagues during leave periods.

You will uphold governance standards, maintain accurate records, and ensure culturally competent practice aligned with safeguarding requirements. Collaboration is key—you will establish strong working relationships with GPs, CYPMHS community teams, commissioners, and other stakeholders to ensure continuity of care. Participation in clinical governance, annual appraisal, and CPD is essential, alongside an interest in research and teaching to support service development.

As a CYPMHS Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be required to:

• 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…