# Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (Eating Disorder) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist-eating-disorder/f50f2283-d289-49aa-805d-a63f2c4b9b77 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist-eating-disorder/f50f2283-d289-49aa-805d-a63f2c4b9b77.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kingsley Green - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £63,696 - £102,689 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T11:20:45.298Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Radlett/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialty_Doctor_CAMHS_Psychiatry/Specialty_Doctor_CAMHS_Psychiatry-v8256117 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8256117?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a newly expanded, multi-disciplinary team which provides specialist CAMHS input to children and young people with eating disorders across Hertfordshire. It provides home-based treatment, out-patient treatment and gate-keeps referrals to in-patient services. The range of care includes: intensive home based support for high risk cases; community based support to provide early intervention to all ED cases; specific ED based therapy working on recovery (including CBT-E, MET, CRT, and family therapy using Maudsley model; psychiatric monitoring and intervention when required). The team has a very positive reputation and the ED practitioners have won numerous Trust wide and national awards. The team has been successful in attracting Government funding to allow service expansion. ### Main duties of the job - Provision of the psychiatric component of the CAMHS tier 3 service to the under 18 population in the Eating Disorder CAMHS Team. - Alongside the multi-disciplinary staff, the post holder will have responsibility for assessing a young person’s mental state, formulating a diagnosis and monitoring the risks a young person poses. - To undertake referral meetings, case reviews as required. - Providing consultation, advice and appropriate support to professionals in the wider network of the young person and/or family - To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients. - To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To participate annually in a job plan review with the line manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation. To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management. - To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services. - To undertake outpatient clinics, home visits and participate in multidisciplinary case discussions. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### ELIGIBILITY **Essential** - Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment. **Desirable** - In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice - Section 12/Approved clinician approval ### QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - MB BS or equivalent medical qualification. **Desirable** - MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ### ACADEMIC SKILLS LIFELONG LEARNING **Essential** - Ability to demonstrate clinical problem solving in interdisciplinary areas - Possession of good organisational skills - Be able to actively listen and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Holds a full valid driving license and access to a car (Unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995). - Has actively participated in clinical audit. ### CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE **Essential** - A minimum of 4 years’ full time post graduate training (or it’s equivalent gained on a part time of flexible basis) at least two years of which to be within a psychiatry training programme or as fixed term Specialty Trainee within psychiatry o; or have equivalent experience and compentancies. - Minimum of 6 months experience within CAMHS - Ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Excellent clinical skills using bio-psychosocial perspective and wide medical knowledge. **Desirable** - Excellent degree of medical knowledge in relation to eating disorders. ## Documents - [job description and person spec (pdf, 640.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569212) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.