Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - North Core

Integrated Care System; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service in Peterborough seeks a Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry to provide medical leadership, conduct assessments, and collaborate within the North CAMHS team. Applicants should hold a relevant GMC registration and possess substantial psychiatric experience. The position offers a supportive environment with ongoing professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and license to practice required.
• Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to train.
• Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team.
• Conduct clinical assessments and treatment for children and young people.
• Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist on-call rota.

Skills

Excellent knowledge in specialty

Decision-making

Problem-solving skills

Ability to take a clinical lead

Training in relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Job description

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - North Core

The closing date is 28 August 2025

The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team within the Integrated Children's Service, working closely with consultant colleagues in CAMHS and Paediatrics, CAMHS MDTs and alongside Managers.

Main duties of the job

The post holder willprovide Consultant Psychiatrist level clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people with general psychiatric disorders in City Care Centre, Peterborough at approximately 1 new case per week and they will work mainly with Core North Team. Further considerations can be made if the post holder wishes to allocate some PAs to work with the neurodevelopmental team (ADHD pathway).

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 andempowering 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 responsibilities

Main Duties of the Post

1. The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team within the Integrated Childrens Service, working closely with consultant colleagues in CAMHS and Paediatrics, CAMHS MDTs and alongside Managers.

2. The post-holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist level clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people with general psychiatric disorders in City Care Centre, Peterborough at approximately 1 new case per week.

3. The post holder will work mainly with Core North team. Further considerations can be made if post holder wish to allocate some PAs to work with Neurodevelopmental team (ADHD pathway).

4. Attend and help shape the team meetings in order to ensure robust clinical governance activities are maintained including appropriate CPD slots, arranged by the Team Manager in collaboration with senior clinicians.

5. Link with Home treatment team and the crisis team this will include supporting IST workers to formulate its cases and plan patients care as the patients Tier 3 consultant.

6. 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 one PA (or pro-rata) is also 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. Examples of SPA activity include working within the Trusts governance structure e.g. participation in the Ethics Committee, Clinical Audit and NICE Implementation Group, the Medicines Management Committee or fulfilling the role of Lead Clinician. There are a great many CPD opportunities including lectures, case conferences and journal clubs.

7. Training of Core, Specialty and GP trainees including as their Consultant Supervisor. The North CAMH and NDS team is a placement for CPFTs Core Training scheme and Specialty Trainees in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry who are on the East of England Higher Training Scheme. We now also train GPs in Secondary Care, so there will the expectation for the post-holder to train a GP trainee in Secondary Care if the opportunity arises.

8. Contribute to the daytime Duty Consultant rota together with Consultant colleagues and ensure Consultant cover is available as needed for the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.

9. Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Providing Consultant Child Psychiatry, non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners. This is a Trust-wide rota covering all of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the three Tier 4 units and the three acute hospitals. Advice may need to be provided to the 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and 9-9pm CAMHS crisis service. There is an expectation that phone calls will be responded to promptly and that on occasion consultants may be required to attend a hospital site to assess patients. There is current review of remuneration for on-call through a diary exercise.

10. Contribute to the teaching and training of STs, CTs, medical students and MDT members.

11. CTs and STs work within the department as part of their psychiatric rotations. There will be an opportunity to undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for these doctors in training.

12. Access to admin support is through the Peterborough Admin Hub. Core and the Neurodevelopmental service have dedicated administrators.

13. Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people on an occasional basis and attend to any safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.

14. Maintain high quality clinical records and otherwise participate in the administrative duties associated with patient care and the running of the service.

15. Collaborate with medical colleagues to maintain the service in the absence of departmental colleagues due to annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• 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

Entry Criteria for the Grade

• 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

• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience training doctors in training
• Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experiences relevant to this post

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Decision-making and problem-solving skills including children and young people
• Ability to take a clinical lead
• Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT
• Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.

Academic skills and lifelong learning abilities

• 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
• 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

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 known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust