The Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Candidate Pack 02 Page 4 The Division Page 5 The Team Page 6 The Wolfson Centre Page 9 Cardiff University Page 11 Welcome to Wales Page 12 Cardiff, the city Page 16 Additional information Page 17 The Role Page 18 Clinical Service information 03 The Division The Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health sits in the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences (DPMCN) and MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics in Cardiff University’s School of Medicine. 2nd in the UK The Division was ranked 2nd in the UK for Psychiatry and Neuroscience, in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. World-leading team The Division includes a world leading section of child and adolescent psychiatry, headed by Professor Anita Thapar. Award-winning research We won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for outstanding transformative insights into causes, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. 04 The Team The Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health will be led by an exceptional inter-disciplinary team made up of specialists in: • Developmental Psychopathology and Psychiatry. • Neuropsychiatric Genetics. • Youth Anxiety and Depression. • Neuroscience and Mental Health. • Social science, Complex Interventions, Public Health ‘Big Data’. Professor Frances Rice Professor Stephan Collishaw Professor Anita Thapar Professor Simon Murphy Professor Graham Moore Professor Ann John Professor Jeremy Hall Professor Michael Owen 05 The Wolfson Centre in Wales The Wolfson Foundation has funded a major new research centre in youth mental health based at Cardiff University, complementing existing world- leading mental health and neuroscience research. The Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health will be a dedicated interdisciplinary research centre focused on adolescent mental health. The £10 million Centre funded by the Wolfson Foundation opened in late 2020. The funding was awarded through a national competition across universities. The Centre utilises the unique datasets in Wales enabling data to be captured from every NHS patient and every secondary school in Wales. Data includes mental health and social data on all secondary school pupils across the nation (approximately 120,000 pupils complete a survey every two years) and consent to digitally record linkage to NHS and Education records. The Secure Anonymised Information Databank (SAIL) includes household, social, educational and health record data and covers > 95% of primary care practices. We will also capitalise on our internal data sets to answer questions about youth mental health including those of the National Centre for Mental Health. The Centre involves international collaborations with leading experts including in the U.S.A., Canada, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand, as well as partnerships with Welsh Government, NHS and schools, and the third sector. 06 Our research will: Track individuals from birth to adulthood to better understand how anxiety and depression develop. Use causal methods to identify environmental risks and utilise genetics to examine stratification. Develop and evaluate a new inter-generational psychological intervention for preventing adolescent depression. Examine how schools can promote better mental health in young people. Use health data uniquely available in Wales to better understand long-term outcomes for young people with anxiety and depression. Training the next generation of scientists in youth mental health: Develop a cadre of clinical and non-clinical Wolfson Future Leader Postdoctoral Fellows and Ph.D. students. Build state-of-the-art interdisciplinary expertise in youth mental health research. Focus on critical quantitative methods and skills - longitudinal modelling, quasi-experimental methods, causal inference. Integration of scientific discovery, intervention development and practical implementation. Adolescent mental health summer schools for youth mental health practitioners and scientists. International collaboration and research exchange. 07 Achieving transformational change in the way we understand the challenges of adolescent mental health and interventions that offer practical help to young people. Within the outstanding environment at Cardiff, we offer: The involvement of young people and the professionals who work with them, at the heart of the programme. Unparalleled scale of data about adolescent anxiety and depression. Extraordinary track-ability of whole nation data, including potential for life course, indefinite longitudinal study of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Rich, long standing partnerships across Wales which help us unlock data potential and then synthesise findings into practise and policy. An outstanding international scientific advisory board, which will ensure global reach of our research and policy findings. Leadership by an outstanding team of highly-regarded Cardiff academics. Strong collaboration with Swansea University’s data science team creating a pan-Wales programme of research. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Team 08 Why Cardiff University? Research excellence Cardiff is in the top tier of Britain’s research universities and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group. We are ranked second nationally for research impact and in the top 5 universities for research excellence in the UK. 7 Queen's Anniversary Prizes We’ve been awarded seven Queen’s Anniversary Prizes, which recognise world- class excellence in UK Higher Education. We’re also home to a large cohort of distinguished staff, including 2 Nobel Prize winners and 13 Royal Society Fellows. Top 10 Cardiff is recognised as one of the top 10 most beautiful universities in the UK (Times Higher Education 2018). 09 10 Croeso, welcome to Wales Croeso is Welsh for ‘welcome’, and you’ll feel it everywhere you go in Wales. Welcome to a country of breathtaking natural beauty, where every day a new experience awaits. Around every corner, a hidden gem: colourful fishing villages and cosy inns, mountain vistas and cliff-top trails, sandy bays and bustling cities. Here you can discover 640 castles; more than any other country in Europe. This is the land of magic and myth, of princes and dragons. A land that has created writers and poets, musicians and athletes, architects and engineers, scientists and philanthropists. A land that has inspired generations to achieve their dreams. This magical land is our home – and your home too. 11 Cardiff, a capital city Dynamic. Friendly. Affordable. Cardiff is a thriving and attractive city which is widely recognised as an outstanding place in which to live, work and study. Cardiff caters to all, offering everything from the excitement of the city to the peace and tranquillity of the nearby coast and countryside. Contemporary, welcoming and easy to get around, the Welsh capital is a city with character, heritage and ambition. Cardiff combines all the advantages of a compact, friendly and affordable location with the cultural and recreational facilities of a modern capital city. 12 Cardiff has been the capital of Wales since 1955 and it has been growing swiftly into its new role. A number of big developments, including the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), Millennium Centre on the Cardiff Bay waterfront and a huge city centre sports stadium, give the city a feel of an international capital with the added benefit of it being small and easy to get around. Innovation Campus 14 Cardiff Cardiff provides a huge variety of places to live and visit, whether it's close to the city centre, a short distance away from campus or in surrounding coastal or countryside areas. There are plenty of great residential areas both in the centre, such as Roath, Pontcanna and Canton, as well as a little further out in Penarth. There are also great state schools corresponding to each of these areas. Cardiff is a city which prides itself on celebrating arts and culture. The development of the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay acts as the flagship theatre of the city, but there are also many others, providing a huge array of performing arts and music. Chapter Arts Centre in Pontcanna has been the long standing local go to for international and arts cinema, as well as theatre and plenty of courses. If nature is what you are looking for, Cardiff is as little as a twenty minute drive away from beautiful countryside, mountains and coastal sites. Cardiff also has great connections with other major cities. Bristol is under an hour away by car and London is just a short train journey away. 15 Additional Information The Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health will be based at Cardiff University in the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences. The division is a global leader in mental health research, including in children and young people, and genetics research and is home to the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. The Division is based in the £30m Hadyn Ellis Building on Cardiff University’s Innovation Campus that hosts research and clinical space. The major theme of the Wolfson Centre’s work is anxiety and depression in young people. The Wolfson Centre will be launched fully in 2021 and will focus on five scientific areas. Our scientific strategy is to adopt a developmental, longitudinal approach and to bridge the crucial research and clinical disconnect between adolescence and adulthood. We are now looking to recruit two senior clinical academic positions in adolescent/youth psychiatry and clinical