Consultant Psychiatrist

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Salary: up to £60,000.00 (FTE up to £150,000.00)

Hours: 16 hours a week

Aurora Boveridge College is a beautiful manor house that has been converted in to an exceptional college. Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty Aurora Boveridge College sits in 16 acres of listed gardens and a wider 50 acre campus, located in the Dorset countryside near the village of Cranborne. The college facilities include multi use sports areas, beautifully manicured gardens, a forestry school, in and outdoor therapy spaces, horticulture and animal care spaces, a motor vehicle work shop and much more.

To take a virtual tour around our site, click here; Boveridge Virtual Tour  

The main purpose of the role:

As our Clinical Psychiatrist, you will use psychiatric models and practices to enhance the learning, cognitive and emotional skills of young people in order to prepare them for adult life and independent living.

You will advise on complex mental health and behavioural matters and provide direct clinical support for other staff so they can respond to young people’s communication and behaviour to reduce reliance on staff or other adults. This involves regular participation in the site High Priority Group meeting, as well as occasional emergency meetings and consultation advice for senior staff.

Key duties:  

• Assess the psychiatric needs of young people through the most appropriate strategy or approach for that person.    
• Liaise with external professionals involved in the care of young people.    
• Engage with a multi-disciplinary practice to co-ordinate behaviour support provision so that it is effectively delivered to meet young peoples’ needs.    
• Provide training and guidance to staff on such issues as mental health difficulties and risk behaviour.    
• Contribute to the training and support needs of families.    
• Provide tailored individual interventions to young people when required.    
• Provide progress reports, treatment evaluations and risk assessments where appropriate for Multi-disciplinary and High Priority Group meetings.    
• Post holders are expected to undertake any other reasonable duties, for which they are trained, qualified or competent.    
• Provision of clinical supervision to members of the therapy team as required

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

Education and training  

• CCT or CESR in a relevant area of psychiatry (Learning Disability, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, General Adult Psychiatry)    
• To have and maintain GMC registration and a license to practise for the entire period of employment.

Experience  

• Working with young people with special education needs and a high level of support requirements.    
• Additional experience (depending on CCT and training) either with children or adults so as to be able to work with a 16-25-year-old patient group. Ability to work with 11-25 year olds would be desirable.    
• Working with young people with Autism and associated difficulties.    
• Working in a school, college or care setting is desirable.    
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team.    
• Current evidence-based practice.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?   

• Full training and continued support    
• Life assurance and pension    
• Health cash back plan    
• Car lease scheme    
• Bike to work scheme     
• Perk box    
• Free parking    
• Teachers’ Pension

For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer