# Consultant Psychiatrist - Liaison CAMHS > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-liaison-camhs/3219c7cd-fdc0-49cb-ad03-9b603558a920 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-liaison-camhs/3219c7cd-fdc0-49cb-ad03-9b603558a920.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Oxford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum | pro-rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 10 sessions per week (Participation in the on-call rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T13:51:41.530Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Melksham/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Child_Adolescent_Psychiatry/Child_Adolescent_Psychiatry-v8066662 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8066662?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)? As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people. This service will look to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts and advocating for them to receive the right interventions and services. You'll be responding to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult and support  colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations working as part of the MDT. Flexibility is required to cover three District General Hospital’s (DGHs): the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital. We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria). If you're looking for a rewarding role where you can make a difference to the lives of young people, join our CAMHS liaison service. ### Main duties of the job You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer across BSW which will need to consider medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them so they receive the right interventions and services for them. This will also include developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home treatment Service (CaHTs) which accepts referrals for young people in crisis and requiring intensive home treatment and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon  to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions for young people You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on their caseload and other medical staff under your supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working you'll be offering leadership and advice to MDT members but will not be medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. You'll  be required to be available to respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult to and support team members and wider colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk presentations. Consultation to other teams and services is also required to support with formulation and care planning for young people that fall within a CAMHS Liaison remit. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working.  If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail. We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you. You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services: BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube ## Job Details Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)? As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people. This service will look to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts and advocating for them to receive the right interventions and services. You'll be responding to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult and support colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations working as part of the MDT. Flexibility is required to cover three District General Hospital’s (DGHs): the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital. We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria). If you're looking for a rewarding role where you can make a difference to the lives of young people, join our CAMHS liaison service. ## Job Description You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer across BSW which will need to consider medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them so they receive the right interventions and services for them. This will also include developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home treatment Service (CaHTs) which accepts referrals for young people in crisis and requiring intensive home treatment and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions for young people You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on their caseload and other medical staff under your supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working you'll be offering leadership and advice to MDT members but will not be medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. You'll be required to be available to respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult to and support team members and wider colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk presentations. Consultation to other teams and services is also required to support with formulation and care planning for young people that fall within a CAMHS Liaison remit. ## Responsibilities At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail. We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you. You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services: BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube ## Person Specification ### Teaching **Essential** - Experience in teaching resident doctors - Good teaching and communication skills - Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates - Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals **Desirable** - Medical education qualification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Medical degree - Fully registered with the General Medical Council - Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview). - Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines - Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post. **Desirable** - A higher degree such as MD or PhD - Additional clinical qualifications - In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice. - In good standing with RCPsych with respect to CPD. ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Full registration - Meet specifications set out in the GMC - Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites ### Other requirements **Essential** - Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. - UK driving licence or evidence of proposed alternative. **Desirable** - Access to a vehicle for work purposes (adjustments can be made in line with the equality act) ### Research and Audit **Essential** - Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice - Audit or other quality improvement experience **Desirable** - Experience of grant-funded project work - Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Experience of clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years - Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act - Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices - Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry **Desirable** - Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health - Experience of working at consultant level in a CAMHS Community or Inpatient setting ### Clinical Skills and Supervision **Essential** - Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty - Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team - Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty - Expertise in risk assessment - Confident in therapeutic risk taking - Commitment to clinical governance **Desirable** - Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post - Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors ### organisational skills and abililties **Essential** - Leadership skills - Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role modelling these behaviours. - Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that - Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals - Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting - Commitment to working with service users on service development **Desirable** - Formal leadership and management training - Experience of team /service leadership - Experience of organisational development work - Project management ability ## Documents - [consultant psychiatrist bsw liaison camhs jd (pdf, 646.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10357638) ## 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.