Locum Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-North

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

North CAMHS forms part of the wider CYPF mental health offer and provides community based assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for children and young people experiencing emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties.The team works closely with local partners including schools, primary care, social care, paediatrics, and voluntary sector services to deliver holistic and evidence based interventions. Pathways within North CAMHS include Core CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessment, crisis response, and targeted support for young people with complex mental health presentations.North CAMHS is a committed, multidisciplinary service that places the voice of the young person at the centre of care. We strive to deliver compassionate, timely, and collaborative interventions that promote positive outcomes and sustained wellbeing.Community paediatric therapy services, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy and Community Physical Health services for CYP are co-located with CAMHs in Peterborough.

Main duties of the job

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.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

  • 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

Essential

  • Experience working in CAMHS and working towards CCT/CESR

Desirable

  • Specialist registration in child and adolescent psychiatry

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experiences relevant to this post

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.
  • Ability to travel

Desirable

  • Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, parenting programmes
  • Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.

Academic skills, lifelong learning abilities

Essential

  • 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
  • Has actively participated in clinical audit
  • Enthusiastic

Desirable

  • 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 oEducation, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications

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.

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: 28 July 2026

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