Consultant Psychiatrist CAMHS (Central)

NHS; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 93,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide senior clinical leadership across Community CAMHS. The role includes expert assessment, formulation and treatment for children and young people with diverse mental health needs, and collaborative work within a multidisciplinary team.

You will participate in daytime duties, contribute to urgent assessments, and support safeguarding with local and national best practices.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and licence to practice.
• MBBS or equivalent qualification.
• MRCPsych.
• Approved Clinician Status or eligible to attend training.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical leadership to CAMHS with high-quality assessment and decision-making.
• Lead on multidisciplinary teamwork and care pathway development.
• Contribute to the CYPF directorate with on-call rota and out-of-hours duties.
• Ensure governance, safety, audit and quality improvement across services.
• Support training, supervision and CPD for junior colleagues.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Policy knowledge

Decision making

Travel willingness

Team collaboration

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRCPsych

GMC registration

Approved Clinician Status or eligible

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure it accurately reflects the clinical responsibilities, service needs, and strategic priorities of the CAMHS Directorate.
The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist providing specialist clinical input within Central CAMHS and the wider Children, Young People & Families (CYPF) Directorate.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

1. Clinical leadership
a. Provide senior medical leadership to the North and/or Central CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.
b. Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.
c. 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.
d. 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.

2. Direct clinical care
a. 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 including
b. Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.
c. Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.
d. Participate in the CYPF directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at additional 1PA. 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
a. Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.
b. Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission

4. Clinical Governance and Quality
a. 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.
b. Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust wide
c. Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.
d. Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trust’s clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.
e. Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.

5. Workforce, Training & Supervision
a. Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.
b. Upskill and support junior colleagues and team’s CPD programme for other disciplines
c. Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.
Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.

6. Strategic Development
a. 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

Training & Development

• 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.

Quality & Patient Safety

• 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.

General

• 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.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and licence to practice
• MBBS or equivalent
• Approved Clinician Status or eligible to attend training
• MRCPsych or equivalent

Experience

• Proven experience of good working relationships
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of teaching and supervision of doctors in training
• Publications in the field of psychiatry

Entry Criteria for the grade:

• Specialty Registration in specialty CCT in relevant specialty or within 6 months of attainment of Higher Training CCT at time of interview.
• Shall have equivalent experience and competencies recognised by GMC

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of policy and legislation relating to mental health.
• Decision-making and problem-solving 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

Qualities and Attributes

• Approachable and flexible.
• Reliable.
• Ability to demonstrate/develop and understanding of service within the wider context of NHS Mental Health Services and PCTs.

Physical Requirements

• Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
• 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.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Mike Basher Job title Clinical Director Email address [e-mail] Additional information

Clare White [e-mail] -Consultant Psychiatrist