Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-BaNESCONS-138-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS Keynsham
- Town
- Keynsham
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist: CAMHS (BaNES)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interested in delivering and developing ground-breaking and growing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in historic & picturesque Wiltshire?
You will work within an active and supportive multidisciplinary team ( BaNES Getting More Help Team)
As a Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care.
As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being. You will have clinical leadership opportunities to develop services across the patch and medical education/ supervision.
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within an active and supportive multidisciplinary team (the BaNES Getting More Help Team). With the team manager and senior members of the team, you will be expected to develop an active leadership role.
You will have medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on the caseload of the Consultant and other medical staff under his/her supervision.
Following the guidance around New Ways of Working, you will offer leadership and advice to MDT members but you are not medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team. Collaboration and liaison with other members of the team is an essential part of the management of the assessment and treatment of referrals to the clinic.
The team operates in close liaison with the Getting Help team which operates as a single point of access for all CAMHS service and screens referrals from GPs, Paediatricians and Education and Social Services. The Getting Help team offers therapeutic input to less complex cases. Emergency referrals can be made by agencies direct to the Getting More Help Team.
Working for our organisation
It is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the BSW service! We deliver the i-Thrive model across BSW, including Mental Health Support Teams in schools and In-Reach services to Social Care.
Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative and Forensic CAMHS.
Our CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was the regional pilot site for the national ARFID project.
If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving children and young people’s mental health and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT have all the right ingredients.
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
- 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification for a detailed overview of the vacancy
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- • Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval and Approved Clinician status.
- • Eligible for Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Registrar in a psychiatric speciality; OR within six months of achieving registration at the time of interview.
Desirable criteria
- • Higher degree/diploma or equivalent in relevant field of medical or psychological studies
- • Higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years and/or previous consultant experience
- • Sub-specialty or other specialist clinical training relevant to post.
- • Membership or Fellowship of The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Excellent knowledge in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- • Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- • Experience of effective multiagency partnership at work.
- • Experience in management of children and young people with complex needs spanning multiple agencies, with emerging personality disorders, conduct and behavioural problems.
- • Experience and familiarity with UK health systems and CAMHS services
- • Ability to undertake full range of Consultant responsibilities.
Desirable criteria
- • Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group.
- • Development of multidisciplinary teamwork, close collaboration with Primary Care services, and working with a multiagency approach, including education, health and social care.
- • High training placement in Adolescent Psychiatry
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions. The ability to assume a medical leadership role within the team and to work closely with senior managers to implement trust objectives
- • Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively. • Commitment to multiagency partnership • Ability to promote effective team working • The ability to prioritise workload and respond in a timely, flexible manner to requests for consultation from colleagues • The ability to use electronic records and diaries • Clinical audit.
- • Must have excellent skills in communication with patients, relatives/carers, colleagues and staff of other organisations.
- • Experience of Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- • Must be skilled in professional collaboration.
- • Experience in supervising basic level psychiatric trainees
- • Must have an interest in and commitment to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- • Honesty and integrity
- • High energy levels
- • Flexibility to cope with service change and demanding clinical challenges
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant experience of administrative and management role or senior medical staff.
- • Teaching qualification.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
- • Meet specifications set out in the GMC
- • Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chandini Abraham
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 903889
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