The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service has an exciting opportunity to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic consultant psychiatrist to pursue the transformation agenda and participate in the coming together of the wider community and mental health and learning disabilities service. Within this role you will provide a comprehensive Consultant Psychiatrist service to children in collaboration with other psychiatric colleagues within the team up to the age of 18, with upper limits according to clinical need.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist to work within the multidisciplinary teams within the community CAMHS team.

Pending Royal College JD Approval

Please note that the Trust would accept applicants for those interested in remote working opportunites.

Main duties of the job

You will need to demonstrate excellent time management and organisational skills given the highly unpredictable nature of the patient group.

You will have exceptional diagnostic, management, and risk assessment skills to support the care of children and young people and their families who are referred to our service. You will be supported to contribute to quality improvement activities within the prisons, together with having opportunities to support research and to the development and training of medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.