Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Job overview

City & Hackney Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

6 PA'S (6 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 Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway. These are long-established consultant sessions, with the vacancy having arisen following the previous post holder moving on to a new role.

The post-holder would be expected to provide Consultant input and clinical leadership to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway three days per week as well as contribute 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.

Closing date: 15th November 2026

AAC panel date: TBC

Main duties of the job

A vacancy has arisen for an innovative and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to provide senior clinical consultant psychiatry input and leadership to the Behaviour Support and Outreach Team in City & Hackney Specialist CAMHS. This post has arisen due to the previous post holder moving to a new role.

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. In particular, the Consultant Psychiatrist will provide clinical input to psychiatric and crisis assessments, medication reviews, risk assessments and management as well as consultation to the multidisciplinary team. The current post holder holds a case load of around 30 children and young people for whom there is an ongoing prescribing need, many of whom are managed jointly with another member of the MDT.

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team, being involved with the team manager and locality manager in helping to steer the development of the service in line with the strategic direction of the organization.

For further information please contact Dr Rafik Refaat, Clinical Director ELFT on rafik.refaat@nhs.net.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

FULL JD/PS ATTACHED

The post-holder would be expected to provide Consultant input into the Behaviour Support and Outreach Team, Assessment Clinics and Consultant Duty Rota. The consultant will be joining a team of 5 other Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists (3.6 WTE) in City & Hackney Specialist CAMHS and CAMHS Disability Service.

There are 2 Foundation doctors, 2 Psychiatric Core Trainees and 2 Specialty Training posts in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry attached to C&H Specialist CAMHS. The Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway comprises a range of other CAMHS disciplines including clinical psychology, family therapy, and CAMHS practitioners.

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the post holder is expected to be actively involved in the clinical governance and strategic development of the team alongside the CTL.

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.