Consultant Psychiatrist – CAMHS – Getting More Help (GMH) North

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in cultural and picturesque Oxfordshire?

We have a full-time Consultant opportunity in our Getting More Help North CAMHS team based within a well-resourced multidisciplinary team. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care, offering a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being.

You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/supervision. You will also be part of a Trust wide Consultant network where there are opportunities to liaise with colleagues in other posts throughout the Trust and develop peer networks. You’ll also see Consultant peers at regular division meetings in the locality and at clinical governance meetings.

We’re looking for candidates who have experience of working in CAMHS and have great interpersonal skills working collaboratively with colleagues and our team managers, providing leadership and clinical expertise to our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary teams. Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and on the Specialist Register or be within six months attaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or an equivalent approved indicator of training.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the Getting More Help North team. You will be responsible for patients you assess directly, as well as for those seen by medical staff working under your direct supervision.
  • Assess new cases and manage their case load working with other clinicians in the team
  • Support and develop evidence-based practice and evaluation within the team
  • Liaise effectively with other services and agencies (education and social care)
  • Manage mental health crises including use of the mental health act where appropriate
  • Support and enable appropriate admission and discharge of patients from inpatient unit
  • Assess new routine, urgent and emergency referrals from other agencies alongside other clinicians, provide consultation to non-medical clinicians and offer ongoing management for patients requiring longer term care
  • Contribute to the Post Assessment clinic consultation slot
  • Contribute to Locality Peer Supervision
  • Support the induction of the Clinical Team and Medical Team
  • Take part in the locality Duty Medic Rota
  • Attend the locality Medical Team Meeting and Clinically Team Meeting
  • Lead on staff training, regularly offer teaching slots in the Breakfast Teaching Slot
  • Contribute to the Supervision Tree and Lead on supervising Medical Trainees
  • Complete Routine, Urgent, Emergency and MHA Assessments.
  • Attend routine and urgent Multi-Agency patient planning meetings with other agencies

Person Specification

Qualification and Registration

Essential

  • MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
  • Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
  • Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR due to be on register within six months
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
  • Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable

  • GuidanceScore Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
  • MRCPsych

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Excellent knowledge in specialty
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
  • Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty

Desirable

  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills

Essential

  • Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
  • Participated in research or service evaluation
  • Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes

Desirable

  • Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
  • Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 14 July 2026

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