Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 114,099 to 166,585 £ / Year

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to assist in providing comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the rural and urban area of Flintshire and Wrexham. The base will flexible to meet the needs of the service, and discussed and agreed via job planning meetings. It is expected that consultants will develop an area of specialist interest to clinically lead, develop and improve services. Time would be provided as part of their 3rd SPA. Current examples include: intellectual disability; eating disorders; and sleep. The details would be agreed within the remit of job planning and to align with service requirements.We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to assist in providing comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to complement the expertise of other Community Consultants and their teams.This is an opportunity to work within a dynamic and innovative service committed to transforming and delivering services that are evidence based and fit for the population of Flintshire and Wrexham

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities o Assessment, formulation and management of significant developmental, behavioural and mental health disorders occurring in children and adolescents 0-18 yearso To offer supervision to colleagues in the teams.o To offer consultation and training to a range of professionals involved in CAMHS work on a mutually arranged basis. o To continue to develop further partnership working with Social Services, Homes for looked after Children and Education, to provide professional advice, support and assessments as necessary.o To join the existing out of hours 1 in 12 on call rota to provide psychiatric cover, consultation and advice to the North Wales Adolescent Service (NWAS) Tier 4 CAMHS Unit, the Paediatric Wards and Adult Mental Health colleagues at the three main hospital sites in North Wales. The on-call rota will include some direct emergency and crisis work at weekends and bank holidays (for example reviewing young people detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act). The post holder would also be expected to contribute to providing psychiatric cover for the community during working hours, together with other Consultant colleagueso To develop in conjunction with other colleagues best practice guidelines and where appropriate clinical pathways and protocols to aid the work of the team and ensure high standards of practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

  • Registration on GMC Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • MRCPsych
  • Sufficient experience of working in community CAMHS settings
  • Approved under Section 12 (2) and committed to becoming an Accredited Clinician within three months of your appointment.
  • Familiarity with applying clinical governance and audit

Desirable

  • Formal teaching qualification
  • ‘Training the Trainers’ certification
  • Peer-reviewed publication
  • Supervising / mentoring / coaching colleagues

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Diagnosis and treatment of mental health presentations in children and adolescents in a multi-disciplinary team setting (including psychosis, mood disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, eating disorders, self-harm)
  • Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Effective leadership skills and teamworking
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Competence in delivering teaching
  • Basic IT skills, including the ability to use Microsoft packages; communicating in line with the Health Board’s Information Governance Policy.

Desirable

  • Skills in social psychological and behavioural therapies
  • Evidence of additional IT skills used for service improvement / academic research

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of Children Act (1989)
  • Knowledge of Mental Health Act (1983)
  • Knowledge [of Mental Capacity Act (2005)

Additional Information

Essential

  • Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
  • Incorporates BCUHB values into own professional behaviour
  • Ability to be flexible in response to the changing needs of the service

Desirable

  • Ability to speak Welsh or willingness to learn the Welsh language

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: 17 August 2026

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