Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Job summary

City & Hackney Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

6 PA’S (6 Sessions)

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

A Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is required for City & Hackney Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. These clinical sessions are located within our Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway. These are long-established consultant sessions, with the vacancy having arisen following the previous post holder moving on to a new role.

The post-holder would be expected to provide Consultant input and clinical leadership to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway three days per week as well as contribute the assessment clinic and the consultant duty rota. The role of the Consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies and facilitate the development of the team and wider service.

Main duties of the job

A vacancy has arisen for an innovativeand enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to provide senior clinical consultant psychiatry input and leadership to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Team in City & Hackney Specialist CAMHS. This post has arisen due to the previous post holder moving to a new role.

The role of the consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment where appropriate, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies and facilitate the development of the team and wider service. In particular, the Consultant Psychiatrist will provide clinical input to psychiatric and crisis assessments, medication reviews, risk assessments and management as well as consultation to the multidisciplinary team. The current post holder holds a case load of around 30 children and young people for whom there is an ongoing prescribing need, many of whom are managed jointly with another member of the MDT.

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team, being involved with the team manager and locality manager in helping to steer the development of the service in line with the strategic direction of the organization.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oFull GMC registration
• oMRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• oPossesses an extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills
• oExperience of assessment and management of CYP with complex mental health disorders

Knowledge

Essential

• oDisplays sound professional judgement
• oExercises sound clinical risk management

Closing Date: 31 July 2026