Consultant Psychiatrist CAMHS (North)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to lead and deliver high-quality CAMHS services across Peterborough. You will provide expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation and treatment for children and young people with diverse mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, within a multidisciplinary team.

The role involves working across community CAMHS, maintaining governance standards, contributing to service development, and taking part

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice.
• MRCPsych or equivalent qualification required.
• Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical leadership to CAMHS with high-quality assessment and safety.
• Lead on case formulations, risk planning, and care pathway development.
• Participate in cross-locality CAMHS meetings and governance forums.
• Deliver direct clinical care for emotional, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental needs.
• Contribute to duty rosters, on-call coverage, and supervision of trainees.
• Support workforce training, CPD, and service transformation initiatives.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Decision-making

Communication skills

Mentoring/training

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Approved Clinician Status

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 Peterborough CAMHS and the wider Children, Young People & Families (CYPF) Directorate.

About us

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 a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include 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, research and development.

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

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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

Job description

Job 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. e. 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 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 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 c. 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 trusts clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology. e. Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
• 4. 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 teams 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.
• 5. 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 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.

Training & Development

To participate in regular peer supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines and Trust policy. To participate in the Trusts 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-holders professional development and the Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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
• MRCPsych or equivalent qualification/certification
• Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training

Entry criteria for the grade

Essential

• 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

Essential

• Proven experience of good working relationships
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of training doctors in training.

Skills/Ability/ Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Decision-making and problem solving skills including children and young people
• Management skills.
• 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.

Qualities/ Attributes

Essential

• Able to demonstrate reflective practice.
• 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

Desirable

• Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints

Equality

Essential

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

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