Consultant Psychiatrist CAMHS Community Eating Disorder Service | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Bury; On-site; GBP 78,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK seeks a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide input and leadership to Community Eating Disorder teams. The role involves leading a team, ensuring assessments and treatment of young patients align with clinical governance. Ideal for clinicians experienced in community eating disorder services or newly qualified consultants in child and adolescent psychiatry. This full-time position offers a dynamic working environment with a commitment to professional development and flexible working opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to continued professional development

Health and wellbeing activities

Staff discounts

Qualifications

• Consultant Psychiatry experience is essential.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Community Eating Disorders team for assessments and treatment plans.
• Consult and support other professionals for patient care.
• Ensure compliance with Trust and healthcare standards.

Skills

Experience in community eating disorder services

Clinical leadership

Effective communication

Education

CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or Adult Psychiatry

Job description

This vacancy is due to the retirement of the current Consultant. The post holder will join the Pennine Community Eating Disorder teams (PCEDS).

The position requires providing Consultant Psychiatry input and clinical leadership to the two Community Eating Disorders Hubs. The South Hub team covers Stockport, Tameside & Glossop, while the North Hub team covers Bury, Oldham and Rochdale metropolitan boroughs.

This is an ideal role for clinicians with experience working in community eating disorder services or for a newly qualified consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist who may wish a split post between community CAMHS and CEDS. A split post can be negotiated with the clinical director.

It is a full‑time (10 PA) position with five programmed activities devoted to each CEDS team. Pennine CEDS provides a comprehensive community service to young people up to their 18th birthday who are residents in the Trust’s five boroughs and who have a significant eating disorder.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Community Eating Disorders team in providing emergency, urgent, and routine multi‑disciplinary assessment and treatment plans for young people with significant eating disorders.
• Assume consultant clinical responsibility for those young people directly receiving psychiatry input and support consultation and liaison with other professionals.
• Adhere to policies and procedures, maintain appropriate clinical records, confidentiality and administration.
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide strong clinical leadership to the CEDS multifaceted team.
• Participate in reviews, CPA, referral and step‑down planning.
• Ensure effective referrer engagement and professional liaison with paediatrics, physical health teams, social care and education.
• Utilise the Care Programme Approach and, where required, the Mental Health Act, Children Act and Mental Capacity Act.
• Partner with other professionals and agencies involved in the care of young people across departmental and organisational boundaries.
• Provide appropriate clinical supervision to the CEDS MDT and offer consultation to referring professionals.
• Take a leadership role in developing evidence‑based practice, practice development and teaching within the field of adolescent psychiatry.
• Lead in the areas of medical and mental health practice using a clinical governance framework.
• Contribute to audit and relevant service improvement activities.
• Maintain safeguarding awareness, communicate and seek consultation on child safeguarding concerns, and keep mandatory safeguarding training and competency up to date.
• Attend department governance meetings, help ensure compliance against Trust, CQC and DoH standards, and support learning from incidents or complaints.
• Work closely with the Trust Board, CAMHS Clinical Business Unit and the Greater Manchester Eating Disorder Network to support ongoing service review and development.
• Ensure national, local and professional policies, procedures and protocols are adhered to.
• Be an active member of the CAMHS Clinical Business Unit and the CAMHS Consultants group, undertaking strategic managerial tasks as appropriate.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support work/life balance.
• Access to continued professional development.
• Involvement in improvement and research activities.
• Health and wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.

Safeguarding & Governance

• Alert to, communicate and seek consultation around child safeguarding concerns, in line with Trust protocol.
• Maintain mandatory safeguarding training and competence.
• Attend departmental governance meetings and support compliance against Trust, CQC and DoH standards.
• Contribute to audit, relevant to the post.
• Adhere to Trust policy on complaints, risk management and recording.

Management

• Work closely with Trust Board, CAMHS Clinical Business Unit and Greater Manchester Eating Disorder Network to support service review and development.
• Ensure adherence to national, local and professional policies, procedures and protocols.
• Be an active member of CAMHS Clinical Business Unit and CAMHS Consultants group, undertaking strategic managerial tasks as appropriate.

On‑Call Responsibilities

CAMHS out‑of‑hours on‑call is provided through a shared rota: 

• First‑response borough‑based psychiatric CT on‑call.
• Middle grade cover through CAMHS ST4‑ST6 on a Trust‑wide level, collaboratively with Greater Manchester.
• Trust‑level consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists for emergencies regarding young people up to 16 years and all CAMHS inpatients, on a 1‑in‑16 Trust‑wide rota.
• For 16‑17‑year‑olds referred out of hours for tier‑4 inpatient care, a joint assessment with adult and CAMHS consultants is arranged according to Trust procedure.
• For patients aged 16 and over, out‑of‑hours on‑call is provided by the adult on‑call service for each borough.
• Successful applicants will join the Trust Child & Adolescent Consultant Psychiatry on‑call rota (if they hold a CAMHS CCT) or an Adult on‑call rota (if they hold an adult psychiatry CCT), with additional remuneration under Category A banding for on‑call availability.

Teaching

The post holder will participate in training, teaching and supervision as appropriate and is supported to gain accreditation as an educational supervisor.

Audit and Clinical Governance

Participation in clinical audit on a regular basis and full engagement in clinical governance activities is expected. All clinical staff are required to provide effective input into the Trust’s clinical governance arrangements and monitor their practice through this process.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Dec 2025.