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Fixed-term Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (North)

4 days ago

Peterborough

Main area Psychiatry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract 12 months (12 Months Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 310-MEDE-7920500-A Site City Care Centre Town Peterborough Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 13/08/2026 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. We strive to deliver compassionate, timely, and collaborative interventions that promote positive outcomes and sustained wellbeing. Community paediatric therapy services, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy and Community Physical Health services for CYP are co-located with CAMHs in Peterborough. 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. • Clinical leadership, • Provide medical leadership to the North CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up., • Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways., • Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care., • 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., • There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well., • Direct clinical care, • 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., • Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders., • Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice., • 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., • System flow, • Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management., • Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission., • Clinical Governance and Quality, • 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., • Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust wide., • Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities., • Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trust’s clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology., • Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation., • Workforce, Training & Supervision, • Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice., • Upskill and support junior colleagues and team’s CPD programme for other disciplines., • Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team., • Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide., • Strategic Development, • 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. Notes • This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager., • This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements, including the possibility of the work base changing to one of the other Community CAMHS services within the Trust boundary of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Such a change would be discussed with the post holder and would form the basis of a revised job plan., • The job plan is subject to review annually by the Consultant and Associate Clinical Director. All consultants participate in annual appraisal and will re-validate with the General Medical Council. Collection of 360-degree feedback and patient feedback for these purposes is now routine., • To participate in regular peer supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy., • To participate in the Trust’s annual appraisal and revalidation process., • To attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so., • 2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro-rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro-rata) is mandatory and an additional 1.0 PA (or pro-rata) is allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holder’s professional development and the Trust’s ability to deliver high quality and properly governed services., • There is a termly CPD event. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs., • Protection of Children & Vulnerable Adults – To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults., • Implementation of NICE guidance and other statutory / best practice guidelines. (if appropriate), • Infection Control - To be responsible for the prevention and control of infection., • Incident reporting - To report any incidents of harm or near miss in line with the Trust’s incident reporting policy ensuring appropriate actions are taken to reduce the risk of reoccurrence., • To contribute to the identification, management and reduction of risk in the area of responsibility., • To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience., • To ensure monitoring of quality and compliance with standards is demonstrable within the service on an ongoing basis., • To be aware of the responsibility of all employees to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients/ clients, visitors and staff., • To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health., • To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this., • To comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these., • To comply at all times with the Trust’s Information Governance related policies. Staffs are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and Trust business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff are responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended., • Full GMC registration and licence to practice, • MRCPsych (or equivalent) qualification/certification, • Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to obtain training, • Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training, • Experience working in CAMHS and working towards CCT/CESR, • Specialist registration in child and adolescent psychiatry, • 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, • 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., • 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, • Has actively participated in clinical audit, • 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, • 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, • Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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