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Locum Consultant Psychiatrist, Brent CAMHS ETT
The closing date is 30 November 2025
We are currently looking for a Part Time Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to work within the Brent CAMHS Enhanced Treatment Team (ETT) within CNWL.
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, innovative and dedicated child and adolescent psychiatrist with special interest in complexity and trauma, and keen to work with a supportive, dynamic and passionate substantive consultant group and MDT clinicians.
There are opportunities for teaching and training, and strong links with Imperial College London to develop research interests.
Further information & arrangements to visit
Dr Louise Morganstein, Lead Consultant C&A Psychiatrist
Tel: 020 3317 5050
Dr Azer Mohammed, Clinical Director for CAMHS
Tel: 020 3317 5999
Main duties of the job
Brent CAMHS is an award winning psychiatry team and has multiple sub‑teams with specialist skills: Emotional Disorders Team (EDT), Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT), Learning disability (LD) and Enhanced Treatment Team (ETT). The post is 5 PAs in the Enhanced Treatment team.
The Enhanced Treatment team contains assessment and treatment pathways for children and young people with severe attachment difficulties, emerging personality disorders and repeated self‑harm, and usually a high degree of complexity and comorbidity.
About us
CNWL is a nationally leading NHS Foundation Trust providing Mental Health, Community Health and Child Health Services across London and the South East of England. Over the last few years our catchment area has grown significantly, making the Trust's population more diverse than ever. The area spans the communities of London, Milton Keynes and wider geographical areas of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. There are areas of great affluence as well as deprivation, and there are over 100 first‑languages spoken in these communities. We were authorised as a Foundation Trust on 1 May 2007.
The Trust is organised into three Divisions: Jameson, Goodall and Diggory. Goodall Division is responsible for the delivery of Mental Health and community Learning Disability services in Hillingdon, as well as all CNWL's specialist rehabilitation provision and CAMHS provision in NW London. We also deliver community physical health services in a number of boroughs in NW London, including Hillingdon, Harrow, Ealing and neighbouring systems of North Central London.
Our staff play a fundamental role in our delivery of excellent outcomes and excellent patient experience, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job responsibilities
Clinical work – Work along with other MDT colleagues to develop the Enhanced Treatment sub‑team, offer consultation, work with colleagues from local authority and education, assess and manage children, young people and their families as appropriate. Provide a generic service for non‑urgent presentations of children and adolescents requiring psychiatric assessments and treatment, including direct clinical involvement and supervision and oversight of cases held by fellow clinicians. Provide a service to acutely mentally ill children and adolescents when presenting in crisis, including a comprehensive assessment and evidence‑based interventions as required across a range of theoretical models and treatments. Consult with other members of the multidisciplinary team regarding the management of urgent assessments and risk. The post holder will be expected to assess about 15–20 new assessments per year, and offer 10–12 face‑to‑face contacts per week. The caseload expected of the post holder is about 30–40 cases in the CAMHS Enhanced treatment team, most of whom will be prescribed medication and present with high clinical complexity. They will be expected to consult other members of the team and join them for clinical reviews as appropriate. Access Tier 4 provision as clinically appropriate and review the management and care of the young person during inpatient admission to ensure the most effective use of resources.
Clinical leadership and management duties – Participation in the development of new models of service to improve delivery and outcome, taking into account the views of commissioners and evidence of best practice. Provide clinical leadership in the Brent Enhanced Treatment team and participate in development of clinical protocols as required. Contribute to the Brent CAMHS senior management group. The substantive post holder will contribute to leadership activities within the CAMHS‑ED service line.
Teaching, training and supervision – Participation in training and supervision of junior doctors, medical students, and other members of the multidisciplinary team as required. There is one CT and one FY2 doctor attached to Brent CAMHS who are currently supervised by the other consultants. There are also opportunities to participate in teaching and training activities with CT1‑3 (the MRCPsych course) and SpRs doctors, local GPs, social workers, health visitors and other partners in the community.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Primary Medical Degree
* Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
* Section 12 MHA Approved
* An additional postgraduate qualification of relevance to working with children and adolescents
* Inclusion on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or equivalent (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date)
* Inclusion on the Specialist Register or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date
* Approved Clinician status or within 3 months of appointment
Experience, skills and abilities
* Competence in pharmacology and also non‑medication therapeutic approaches
* Experience in the assessment and management of children and young people with complex mental health needs and high risk
* Knowledge of Clinical Governance/Care Quality
* Able to participate in Medical Audit and Quality Assurance
* Experience of teaching and supervision of junior staff and other disciplines
* Management Training
* Experience of Research
* Experience in Paediatrics
* Experience and training in the assessment and management of neurodevelopmental disorders
Personal skills & qualities
* Excellent communication and empathic skills
* Demonstrable leadership skills
Disclosure and Barring Service check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly called CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
£109,725 to £145,478 a year
£2,162 London Weighting per year, pro rata
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