Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - North
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area Psychiatry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
10 sessions per week Job ref 310-MEDE-7892152
Site City Care Centre Town Peterborough Salary £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/6/2026 23:59 Interview date 9/7/2026
Job overview
The CYPF Directorate brings together specialist and community pathways designed to meet the diverse needs of young people.
We spread across three localities covering the area from Cambridgeshire across Peterborough and south Lincolnshire with three main bases: Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough.
There are also community paediatrics services in our directorate including paediatric therapies: speech and language, dietetics, occupational therapy.
North CAMHS forms part of the wider CYPF mental health offer and provides community based assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for children and young people experiencing emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties.
The team works closely with local partners including schools, primary care, social care, paediatrics, and voluntary sector services to deliver holistic and evidence based interventions.
Pathways within North CAMHS include Core CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessment, crisis response, and targeted support for young people with complex mental health presentations.
North CAMHS is a committed, multidisciplinary service that places the voice of the young person at the centre of care.
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, evidence based Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service across Community CAMHS pathways, providing expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people with a broad range of mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and ensuring full compliance with national standards, NHS policy, and CPFT governance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Clinical leadership
o Provide senior medical leadership to the North CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.
o Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.
o Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team, the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.
o Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
o There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.
2. Direct clinical care
o Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway.
o Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.
o Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.
o Participate in the directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.
3. System flow
o Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.
o Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission.
4. Clinical Governance and Quality
o Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.
o Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust wide.
o Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.
o Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trust’s clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.
o Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
5. Workforce, Training & Supervision
o Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.
o Upskill and support junior colleagues and team’s CPD programme for other disciplines.
o Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.
o Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.
6. Strategic Development
o Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs led service to young people across the trust.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Full GMC registration and license to practice
* MRCPsych or equivalent qualification/certification
* Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to obtain training
* Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training
Entry criteria for the grade
* Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or CESR or within 6 months of attainment of CCT /CESR at time of interview.
* Shall have equivalent experience and competencies as recognised by GMC
Experience
* Proven experience of good working relationships
* Experience of multi-disciplinary working
* Experience of training doctors in training.
* Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experiences relevant to this post
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
* Excellent knowledge in specialty
* Decision-making and problem-solving skills including children and young people
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to take a clinical lead.
* Able and willing to represent department at Trust wide meetings.
* Able to work and build relationships with others.
* Ability to travel
* Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, parenting programmes
* Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.
Academic skills, lifelong learning abilities
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
* Participated in continuous professional development
* Participated in research or service evaluation
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
* Published on a relevant subject in a peer reviewed journal
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
* Participated in quality/service improvement initiative
* Led a clinical audit leading to significant change
* Evidence of achievement in • Education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
Qualities/Attributes
* Approachable and flexible.
* Reliable.
* Ability to demonstrate/develop an understanding of service within the wider context of the changing NHS and Mental Health Services
* Able to tolerate clinical complexity, uncertainty, and change
* Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints
Equality
* Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
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