Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West)
Substantive, full-time post (part time and secondments welcome)
Please contact Dr Julie Anderson to discuss less than full time working
The successful applicant(s) will join a multi-disciplinary team delivering a new Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West).
This role is suited to a psychiatrist with expertise in child development, neurodiversity, and adolescent mental health, a strong ethic of reflective practice and a passion for multi-disciplinary team working.The consultant is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service.
This role will involve (but is not limited to)triaging referrals into the service in a multi-professional setting, local area consultation and advice pre referral where relevant or indicated,joint assessment with senior psychological staff, and holistic consultations tailored to age and presentation with children and young people expressing gender diversity.
The Cass Review into gender services for children and young people has recommended that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services in order to embed the care of children and young people with gender-related distress within a broader child and adolescent health context.
Clinical (to include):- Triaging referrals into the service in a multi-professional setting
- Local area consultation and advice pre referral where relevant or indicated
- Joint assessment with senior psychological staff and management of children and young people who are experiencing gender incongruence
- Undertake detailed and complex assessments aligned to a pre-agreed approach, using a high degree of clinical expertise
- Support the development of care plans including using clinical judgement regarding priority of support, expected timelines, etc
- Liaise with other health professionals and social care teams as necessary to support appropriate care for patients
- To provide consultation and support to the MDT e.g complex case support, risk management, diagnostic dilemmas
- Holistic consultations tailored to age and presentation with children and young people with/without parents/carers including but not limited to social history, education, development, learning needs, sexual health, physical health, self-harm and suicide
- To be a key member of the MDT, planning and guiding individualised care for each CYP, championing and leading on mental health and related needs
- Communicate complex information in skilled and sensitive manner with a specialist caseload of young people and their parents/carers and where needed with children’s social care
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this position
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Sep 2024