Consultant Psychiatrist – Liaison CAMHS: Sponsorship Available

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you an innovative and ambitious Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist looking for the opportunity to shape a new service from the ground up?

We are recruiting a full-time or part-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our newly developing BSW CAMHS Liaison Service across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire for a 12 month fixed term contract to expand and transform our liaison offer for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis within acute hospital settings.

You’ll provide clinical leadership across three District General Hospitals – the Royal United Hospital (Bath), Great Western Hospital (Swindon) and Salisbury District Hospital – working alongside a newly established leadership team and expanded multidisciplinary workforce.

This is far more than a traditional liaison post. You will help design and develop a future model of care, strengthen pathways with crisis and inpatient services, influence system-wide practice, and play a key role in demonstrating the impact of the service to secure permanent funding.

We are looking for a clinician who thrives on innovation, service development and collaborative working. You’ll have the opportunity to improve outcomes for young people in crisis, reduce avoidable admissions and ensure children and families receive timely, compassionate and effective care.

Join us and help create the next generation of CAMHS liaison services.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead the development of a new CAMHS Liaison model across BSW as part of a newly established clinical leadership team, shape and enhance the CAMHS Liaison Service, helping to develop a comprehensive urgent mental health offer and supporting the case for permanent funding.
  • Provide senior clinical leadership across three District General Hospitals offering psychiatric expertise and clinical oversight to multidisciplinary liaison teams working within the Royal United Hospital (Bath), Great Western Hospital (Swindon) and Salisbury District Hospital.
  • Assess and manage young people presenting with high-risk mental health crises supporting complex assessments, providing specialist consultation, undertaking Mental Health Act work when required, and advising colleagues managing high-risk presentations.
  • Work collaboratively across urgent care pathways through developing strong links with the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), inpatient services, acute hospitals and wider networks to improve care, reduce avoidable admissions and promote least restrictive interventions.
  • Lead and support multidisciplinary teams through clinical leadership, governance, supervision and consultation to liaison clinicians and medical trainees, fostering a culture of quality improvement, learning and compassionate care.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Registration

Essential

  • Medical degree
  • Full GMC registration
  • Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview)
  • Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post

Desirable

  • MSc or higher degree
  • Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical work in specialty at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
  • Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
  • Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices

Desirable

  • Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
  • Experience of working at consultant level in an inpatient environment

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Leadership skills
  • Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role modelling these behaviours
  • Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
  • Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty

Desirable

  • Formal leadership and management training
  • Experience of team /service leadership

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: 1 November 2026

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