Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This post will provide input into the Selby part of the North Yorkshire and York service. Specifically, this service is commissioned by the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership. It has a Single Point of Access service staffed by an experienced staff team who triage and provide a telephone consultation service to families and referrers. The SPA responds to all referrals and help young people and their families with the process of navigating through the options to find a service that meets their needs. The service works with a model of brief intervention to empower young people and their families in achieving good mental health and well-being. Staff job plans are designed to deliver services described in the TEWV Clinical Pathways, to provide high quality evidence-based care.

This post arises from a consultant vacancy which is currently covered by a locum consultant, the previous substantive post holder left the trust.

The post holder will, with their consultant colleague, see all presentations, requiring the input of a psychiatrist arising from the secondary schools and their feeder primary schools within the Selby sector. The consultant would expect to hold a caseload of around 100 based on current consultant caseload and would be asked to see approximately 2 new assessments per week. The service supports a model whereby all cases are co-worked with other members of the MDT, care coordinator and lead professional role usually held by a non-psychiatrist, except where there is a formal mutual agreement that sole consultant input is required with other members of the multidisciplinary team. The Consultant will have responsibility- together with the other Consultant in the team for the provision of psychiatric services to children and young people living in the Selby area. A provisional job plan is set out in section 18 of the job description for the post