# Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - Deaf CAMHS Cambridge > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-psychiatrist-deaf-camhs-cambridge/e44004a5-6c53-470c-95d3-26b53ac67768 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-psychiatrist-deaf-camhs-cambridge/e44004a5-6c53-470c-95d3-26b53ac67768.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** 3 months (Fixed Term 3 Month) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-25T10:51:36.062Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Cambridgeshire/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Deaf_CAMHS_Cambridgeshire/Deaf_CAMHS_Cambridgeshire-v8034853 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8034853?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Locum Consultant Psychiatrist  - 6PAs Duration - 3 - 6 months We are seeking to appoint an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist in our Deaf CAMHS team based in Cambridge.  This  part time Consultant post provides clinical input to children and young people from Cambridge and East of England, referred to the National Deaf CAMHS Service. The successful candidate will join an established and stable multidisciplinary team of professionals skilled in mental health and deafness. The multidisciplinary team consists of a mixture of deaf and hearing staff and also sign language interpreters experienced in mental health work. The service is part of the National CAMHS Deaf service with hubs across the country and a unified quality and governance alliance. South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust hosts three community teams. This team covering Greater London and teams covering Kent/ Medway and Cambridge. ### Main duties of the job The primary focus of this role will be to provide specialist support for deaf children, many of which will present neurodevelopmental needs. This is, therefore, likely to involve managing ADHD cases that require ongoing medication monitoring and reviews, as well as contributing to the ASD pathway through participation in ADOS assessments and general consensus discussions with the wider team. To ensure a supported workflow, all cases will have assigned care coordinators. While consultant retains medical oversight for the majority of the caseload, there are collaborative conversations to agree on oversight on a case-by-case basis where appropriate and liaison with local CAMHS for higher risk cases . Experience of working with deaf community is desirable but not essential and deaf awareness training will be provided. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Providing services that are linguistically and culturally accessible; - An increase in skilled Deaf and hearing bilingual practitioners working together to provide a highly specialised service for families who access the service. - Promoting social inclusion and reducing isolation for a minority population - Promoting systemic changes that impact positively on mental health including safe inclusive education where communication needs are met, and children and young people have access to healthy learning and peer relationships; - Improving mental health and wellbeing in a complex group of children and young people where mental health problems and deafness co-exist - Improving quality of life in a vulnerable group of young people; - Promoting an equitable and accessible mental health service at highly specialist levels for deaf children and young people and their families. - Reducing the risk of misdiagnosis and inadequate or delayed treatment. - An aspiration to reduce rates of mental health problems in deaf adults Please see attached JDPS for more details ## Job Details Locum Consultant Psychiatrist  - 6PAs Duration - 3 - 6 months We are seeking to appoint an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist in our Deaf CAMHS team based in Cambridge.  This  part time Consultant post provides clinical input to children and young people from Cambridge and East of England, referred to the National Deaf CAMHS Service. The successful candidate will join an established and stable multidisciplinary team of professionals skilled in mental health and deafness. The multidisciplinary team consists of a mixture of deaf and hearing staff and also sign language interpreters experienced in mental health work. The service is part of the National CAMHS Deaf service with hubs across the country and a unified quality and governance alliance. South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust hosts three community teams. This team covering Greater London and teams covering Kent/ Medway and Cambridge. ## Job Description The primary focus of this role will be to provide specialist support for deaf children, many of which will present neurodevelopmental needs. This is, therefore, likely to involve managing ADHD cases that require ongoing medication monitoring and reviews, as well as contributing to the ASD pathway through participation in ADOS assessments and general consensus discussions with the wider team. To ensure a supported workflow, all cases will have assigned care coordinators. While consultant retains medical oversight for the majority of the caseload, there are collaborative conversations to agree on oversight on a case-by-case basis where appropriate and liaison with local CAMHS for higher risk cases . Experience of working with deaf community is desirable but not essential and deaf awareness training will be provided. ## Responsibilities Please see attached JDPS for more details ## Person Specification ### TEACHING: **Essential** - Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry **Desirable** - Teaching Qualification Evidence of feedback good from students ### Qualifications **Essential** - Primary Medical degree. - Full GMC registration - Included on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT. - Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act **Desirable** - MRCPsych, or equivalent. Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry - CCT in General Adult Psychiatry. - Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DBT or MBT - Qualifications in change management and service development skills - Other higher degrees or further training relevant to the post. ### AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT: **Essential** - Engage in continuing professional development, and join a Peer Group to gain approval for CPD done. - Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit, quality improvement, and working with colleagues in the liaison psychiatry team, the acute trust, and managers. Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer’s groups, and local charities. **Desirable** - Experience of service planning and development - Experience of working with third sector partners ### AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT: RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: **Desirable** - Evidence of participation in research, and outcomes of studies - Higher degree in research Completion of a research project and evidence of its dissemination - Publication in a peer reviewed journal ### QUALIFICATIONS: KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE: Critical Expertise in Specialty **Essential** - Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved Higher Psychiatric training scheme. - A detailed knowledge of main treatment approaches for severe mental illness including psychopharmacological interventions **Desirable** - Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management - Experience of teaching medical and non-medical staff, including those who may not have a formal qualification ## Documents - [trust strategy (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1559) - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [locum consultant (pdf, 832.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10322683) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) - [personal details and fitness to practice (doc, 26.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=490) ## 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.