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Job overview
A consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist is required for the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. The post is an 8 PA fixed term post.
The post-holder will work across the Emotional and Behavioural team and the CAMHS in Social Care Team at Greatorex Street Community CAMHS, a long-established service for the assessment and treatment of young people up to the age of 18 years, their families and carers living in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
The post-holder will hold a joint Clinical Team Lead position in a well-established joint leadership structure with a co-Clinical Team Lead.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details and information relating to the role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
For more information and/or informal discussion, please contact: Dr Chiara Colonnelli, Lead Psychiatrist - [email protected]
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Meets professional health requirements
- Adherence to the highest ethical and professional standards
Research
Desirable
- Experience in a research project
- Publication accepted by peer review journals in a relevant academic field
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of teaching in small groups and lecturing
- Commitment to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, academic and clinical
Desirable
- Familiarity with problem based learning approaches
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
Management/Audit
Essential
- Enthusiastic and organised approach to audit and quality assurance
- Ability to operate effectively in a committee
Desirable
- Training in management skills
- Experience of management of a clinical area
- Experience of service development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Concerned to maintain and develop this knowledge
- Displays sound professional judgement
- Exercises sound clinical risk management
- Sees patients within a holistic context
- Creative in the design and implementation of treatment programmes
- Appreciation and understanding of transcultural and gender issues in psychiatry
- Shows an approach based on critical enquiry and evidence-based practice
- Able to balance competing demands and prioritise
Desirable
- Higher training in a specific psychotherapeutic treatment or modality, e.g. Family Therapy, CBT, individual or group psychotherapy
Education/Qualification/Training
Essential
- Full GMC registration
- MRCPsych parts 1&2 or equivalent
- Eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register or CCT in appropriate specialty (or within 6 months)
- Section 12 approved and Approved Clinician status or willing to apply for approval
Desirable
- Higher academic degree
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Strong leadership and co-ordination skills with ability to direct and organise teams
- Excellent communication skills with a range of different people
- Ability to build effective relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other professionals
- Ability to cope with considerable pressure and adapt to constant change and new demands
- Shows enthusiasm and initiative in pursuing innovation and the highest standards for patients, juniors, colleagues and the organisation
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This advert is for Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum pro-rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (8PA). The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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