Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Job overview

We are pleased to invite enthusiastic and dynamic candidates to join our team. This is a new permanent 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 the post holder will be based for one day a week. The successful candidate 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:  8th July 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.