Consultant Psychiatrist – ID (with additional benefits)

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disability (ID) CAMHS, or Child & Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist with experience in ID or Neurodiversity, as part of our comprehensive CAMHS Service in North Derbyshire.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a friendly, dynamic and supportive service and we are happy to consider less than full time working/job share.

We offer £10,000 in addition to basic salary on commencement, with a further £10,000 after 2 years in post. An additional SPA beyond the usual allocation of 1.5 PAs will also be allocated to enable our appointee to undertake defined Care Unit support. Benefits will be pro rata for part time.

We have an excellent, well established and experienced LD CAMHS team made up of Intellectual Disability and Mental Health nurses, Specialist Support Workers, Speech and Language Therapy, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. The team has an excellent track record of delivering outstanding patient care having previously been nominated for their work. We enjoy excellent links with our key partner agencies across North Derbyshire and have link workers with our Special Schools delivering a comprehensive training programme. We work closely with our wider CAMHS team and have well-integrated leadership across the service. Please see our well used website for more information about LD CAMHS and what we offer: www.camhsnorthderbyshire.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached Job Description for a full description of the post and information about working for us.

Person Specification

Professional Qualifications

Essential

  • MBchB or equivalent
  • CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • MRCPsych or equivalent qualification
  • Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practise and entry on GMC specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview.
  • S12 Approval

Desirable

  • Specialist interest or additional qualifications in other areas of specialty.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with young people and their families/carers
  • Quality/audit project experience.
  • Good knowledge of child and adolescent psychiatry and wide medical knowledge

Desirable

  • Psychotherapy – CBT/IPT/brief intervention training

Skills

Essential

  • Clinical supervision experience/skills
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

  • Ability to undertake training/mentoring of clinical staff and enthusiasm for education

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: 23 July 2026

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