# Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist/18325b30-9563-4653-96e4-08df65494fe3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-child-and-adolescent-psychiatrist/18325b30-9563-4653-96e4-08df65494fe3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: none - **Closing date:** 2026-07-24T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-26T12:22:22.937Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8064239 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8064239?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview City & Hackney Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service 8 PAs (sessions) Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist A Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is required for City & Hackney Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.  These clinical sessions are located within our Adolescent Mental Health Team (8 sessions). This is a long established consultant post, with the vacancy arising due to the previous post holder leaving the role The post-holder would be expected to provide Consultant input and clinical leadership to the Adolescent Mental Health Pathway four days per week as well as contribute to the assessment clinic and the consultant duty rota. The role of the Consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies and facilitate the development of the team and wider service You will join 4 (3.2 WTE) other Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists based in C&H CAMHS. In addition to the above clinical duties, clinical supervision, teaching, training and research, the service takes part in the Trust’s active and extensive Healthcare Governance and Quality Improvement agenda. ### Main duties of the job The AMHT is based at Homerton Row Site and provides assessment and treatment to City & Hackney Adolescents presenting with psychosis and severe mental illness, and those requiring more intensive support for serious mental health difficulties associated with risk to self. The role of the consultant is to provide psychiatric assessment and treatment where appropriate, contribute a psychiatric perspective, provide senior clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, offer consultation to other professionals and agencies and facilitate the development of the team and wider service. The team, is clinically led by the CTL and the consultant psychiatrist together with an 8b clinician. It is a small cohesive team comprising of clinical psychology, family therapy, nursing, CAMHS Practitioner and an OT who has a joint role leading on internal duty system, as well as a Specialist Registrar from the GOSH/RLH rotation and an F2 doctor from HUH. The Team caseload is around 45 – 50 cases including approximately 10 Early Intervention for Psychosis young people. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities FULL JD/PS IS ATTACHED The team model includes joint working between Psychiatry and allocated care-coordinator as well as individual working with young people and their families to provide developmentally informed evidence-based treatments. The consultant will have a small caseload of around 15  patients as well as providing psychiatric assessments of other young people as required. Liaison with Tier 4 inpatient services, CAMHS extended crisis service (CECS) and the developing Home Treatment Team (HTT) is a key expectation of the role, as are relationships with the Homerton Hospital, and Children’s Social Care. The AMHT plays a key role in the service with consultation to other pathways and timely intervention for high risk young people requiring more intensive care. The post holder will also be expected to see on average one new routine assessment per week in the assessment clinic. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Displays sound professional judgement - - Exercises sound clinical risk management ### Experience **Essential** - - Possesses an extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills. - - Experience of assessment and management of CYP with complex mental health disorders ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Full GMC registration - - MRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10354882) - [consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10354883) ## 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.