Consultant Psychiatrist CAMHS (North) | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

The principal purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, evidence based Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service across Community CAMHS pathways, providing expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people with a broad range of mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and ensuring full compliance with national standards, NHS policy, and CPFT governance.

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure it accurately reflects the clinical responsibilities, service needs, and strategic priorities of the CAMHS Directorate.

The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist providing specialist clinical input within Peterborough CAMHS and the wider Children, Young People & Families (CYPF) Directorate.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include 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.

To achieve our goal,



we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. 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.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Main Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

1. Clinical leadership

a. Provide senior medical leadership to the North and/or Central CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and secure psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.

b. Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.

c. Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.

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Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.

e. There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.

2. Direct clinical care

a. Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway including

b. Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.

c. Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.

d. Participate in the directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.

3. System flow

a. Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.

b. Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission

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4. Clinical Governance and Quality

a. Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.

b. Contribute to the c

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