Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust – an organisation dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care.

Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – North

The closing date is 14 May 2026

The CYPF Directorate brings together specialist and community pathways designed to meet the diverse needs of young people. We cover three localities across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and south Lincolnshire with bases in Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough. Community paediatrics services include paediatric therapies: speech and language, dietetics, occupational therapy.

North CAMHS is part of the wider CYPF mental health offer providing 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 – schools, primary care, social care, paediatrics, and voluntary sector services – to deliver holistic, 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.

About us

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, including children's, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Job responsibilities

• Clinical leadership: Provide senior medical leadership, high‑quality clinical assessment, decision‑making and safe psychiatric management; work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner services; lead on safeguarding and neurodevelopmental assessment pathways.
• Direct clinical care: Provide high‑quality assessment, formulation and treatment for children and young people in the community CAMHS pathway; manage clinical complexity and provide support for urgent assessments and advice; participate in daytime duty consultant rota and out‑of‑hours on‑call rota.
• System flow: Review wait lists and caseloads, monitor capacity and demand, and support return to the community for those requiring inpatient admission.
• Clinical governance and quality: Contribute to system‑wide working, attend cross‑locality and trust‑wide meetings, lead quality improvement initiatives, ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and Trust clinical quality frameworks, maintain standards in safe prescribing and documentation.
• Workforce, training & supervision: Serve as Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors; upskill and support junior colleagues; lead induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team; contribute to consultant‑level leadership forums.
• Strategic development: Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS transformation work to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs‑led service to young people across the Trust.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• 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.
• Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or CESR, or within 6 months of attainment of CCT/ CESR at the time of interview.

Entry Criteria for the Grade

• Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or CESR or within 6 months of attainment of CCT/ CESR at the time of interview.
• Shall have equivalent experience and competencies as recognised by GMC.

Experience

• Proven experience of good working relationships.
• Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• Experience of training doctors in training.
• Wide range of specialist and sub‑specialist experiences relevant to this post.

Skills / Ability / Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge in the specialty.
• Decision‑making and problem‑solving skills, particularly for children and young people.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to take a clinical lead.
• Able and willing to represent the department at Trust‑wide meetings.
• Ability to work and build relationships with others.
• Ability to travel.
• 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

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Participation in continuous professional development.
• Participation in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Published on a relevant subject in a peer‑reviewed journal.
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Participation in quality/service improvement initiative.
• Led a clinical audit leading to significant change.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications.

Qualities / Attributes

• Approachable and flexible.
• Reliable.
• Understanding of service within the wider context of the changing NHS and Mental Health Services.
• Able to tolerate clinical complexity, uncertainty, and change.
• Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints.

Equality

• 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 will require a Disclosure and Barring Service check.