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Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Experience of audit and outcome monitorin
- Other
Competence in delivering evidence- based practice
- Other
Compliance with national and professional guidelines
- Other
Membership of Medical Defence organisation
- Training
Training and experience of safeguarding, governance and legislation issues specific to children and adolescents
- Training
Section 12 (20) and AC Approval (Mental Health Act) or willing to apply for such approval once in post
- Qualifications
MRCPsych or equivalent
- Qualifications
Inclusion on The GMC’s specialist Register or eligible for inclusion on Specialist Register for Psychiatry (CCST or equivalent) or within 6 months of award of CCST by date of interview.
- Skills & Experience
Wide experience of therapeutic work with children and young people and their families/carers, including psychopharmacology
- Skills & Experience
Experience of managing complexity and risk in acute and crisis settings
- Skills & Experience
Experience in assessment and management of young people presenting with mental health emergencies
- Skills & Experience
Experience and knowledge of multi- disciplinary , multi agency working with children
- Skills & Experience
Experience of teaching, supervision and consultation for doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level and MDT staff
- Skills & Experience
Highly developed skills in analysis and formulation of clinical problems and a high level of competence in verbal and written communications to a multiagency audience
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
Capacity to be in a leadership role contributing to clinical governance and strategy for child and adolescent mental health
- Training
Additional training or experience in therapeutic modalities applicable to children, young people and families (CBT, DBT, systemic or psychodynamic psychotherapy)
- Training
Experience of mental health work in child health settings
- Training
ADOS trained
- Skills & Experience
Clinical interest/ experience in the specialist area of CAMHS crisis and/ or Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
- Skills & Experience
Experience of research and submitting publications
Job overview
We are pleased to invite enthusiastic and dynamic candidates to join our team. This is a new permanent 10 PA role which has been created to meet the increasing demand for children's mental health services in the borough.
This is a split role between community CAMHS and the Paediatric Mental Health team (PMHT) at the Whittington hospital, where you will be based for one day a week.
You will support Islington community CAMHS, by providing clinical leadership, psychiatric consultations and appropriate interventions as needed, and will provide clinical leadership to the Paediatric Liaison Team with an emphasis on crisis assessments and management. There are opportunities for paediatric liaison work if this is in the post holder’s interests.
Interview date: 17th November 2026
**Please note that as per our Trust processes you will be expected to make yourself available to attend a face to face interview if successfully short listed for this post.**
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties of the post
Provide clinical leadership and consultation to colleagues within Islington CAMHS
- Offer urgent psychiatric consultations to CYP presenting in mental health crises at the Whittington hospital
- Within Islington CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessments for autism/ ADHD/ tics are done by other members of the MDT but the post holder will be expected to assist the MDT in diagnostic decision making via consultation. New cases allocated for treatment to the post holder will already have had an assessment. The post holder will be allocated two new cases per month.
- Support the psychiatry group by contributing to psychiatry consultations and the day time duty rota
- There is no emergency rota in Islington CAMHS. There are other services for this. However the post holder will be expected to address any emergencies for their existing patients as they arise.
- The post holder is expected to have arranged cross cover for when they are away.
- Foster good working relationships with Islington AAOT and CAMHS, NCL partners and the NCEL collaborative
- Liaise with wider networks eg social care and education, to support young people with significant mental health concerns.
- Contribute to UCLMS teaching for psychiatry and paediatrics
- Contribute to service development and innovation in line with the NCEL, NCL and national strategic aims.
- Contribute to audit, QI and research activity according to the service needs and priorities. There is a designated audit and QI lead for the service who supports all projects.
- Weekly supervision of resident doctors.
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with Whittington Health NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Oct 2026.
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