Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - North Core

Consultant Psychiatrist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - North Core

The closing date is 03 February 2026

The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team within the Integrated Children’s Service, working closely with consultant colleagues in CAMHS and Paediatrics, CAMHS MDTs and alongside Managers.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide Consultant Psychiatrist level clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people with general psychiatric disorders in City Care Centre, Peterborough at approximately 1 new case per week and they will work mainly with Core North Team. Further considerations can be made if the post holder wishes to allocate some PAs to work with the neurodevelopmental team (ADHD pathway).

About us

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 and empowering 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, 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

Job responsibilities

Main Duties of the Post

• Provide medical leadership to the North CAMHS team within the Integrated Children’s Service, working closely with consultant colleagues in CAMHS and Paediatrics, CAMHS MDTs and alongside Managers.
• Provide Consultant Psychiatrist level clinical assessment and treatment to children and young people presenting with general psychiatric disorders in City Care Centre, Peterborough at approximately 1 new case per week.
• Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Attend and help shape team meetings to ensure robust clinical governance activities are maintained including appropriate CPD slots, arranged by the Team Manager in collaboration with senior clinicians.
• Link with Home treatment team and the crisis team; this will include supporting STR workers to formulate cases and plan patients care as the Tier 3 consultant.
• 2.5 Programmed Activities (or pro‑rata) are allocated for CPD, audit, clinical governance, supervision, research and other supporting professional activities. Of this, 1.5 PA (or pro‑rata) is mandatory and an additional one PA (or pro‑rata) is also allocated to supporting professional activities that benefit both the post-holder’s professional development and the Trust’s ability to deliver high-quality and properly governed services.
• Training of Core, Specialty and GP trainees including as their Consultant Supervisor. The North CAMH and NDS team is a placement for CPFTs Core Training scheme and Specialty Trainees in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry who are on the East of England Higher Training Scheme. We now also train GPs in Secondary Care, so there will be the expectation for the post-holder to train a GP trainee in Secondary Care if the opportunity arises.
• Contribute to the daytime Duty Consultant rota together with Consultant colleagues. Ensure Consultant cover is available as needed for the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.
• Participate in the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Providing Consultant Child Psychiatry, non‑residential, on‑call advice / supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners.
• Contribute to the teaching and training of STs, CTs, medical students and MDT members.
• CTs and STs work within the department as part of their psychiatric rotations. There will be an opportunity to undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for these doctors in training.
• Access to admin support is through the Peterborough Admin Hub. Core and the Neurodevelopmental service have dedicated administrators.
• Provide consultation to multi‑agency colleagues working with children and young people on an occasional basis and attend to any safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
• Maintain high quality clinical records and otherwise participate in the administrative duties associated with patient care and the running of the service.
• Collaborate with medical colleagues to maintain the service in the absence of departmental colleagues due to annual leave, study leave and short‑term sickness.
• Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide a safe, efficient and effective needs‑led service to young people across CPFT.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Entry Criteria for the Grade

Experience

Skills / Knowledge / Ability

Academic skills and lifelong learning abilities

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

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