Job summary
- Main area
- Community CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time and part time applications accepted
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-BaNESCONS-139-C
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Keynsham
- Town
- Keynsham
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Getting More Help - Keynsham
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
Would you like to work for a Trust which has been awarded Global Digital Exemplar Status and be part of our work on the development of mental health related Apps for young people?
We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join us at our Bath & NE Somerset (BANES) Community CAMHS Team where you will have an active leadership role and medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of children, adolescents and families.
With your expertise in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, you'll join our Getting More Help multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working in close liaison with our Getting Help team which operates as a single point of access for CAMHS, screening referrals from GPs, Paediatricians and Education and Social Services.
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).
Could this be the next step in your career? Come and join one of the UK's leading mental health Trusts and be part of a successful service implementing an exciting and innovative service model for children and young people’s mental health.
Main duties of the job
- Attend regular MDTs and provide clinical leadership and medical input to the team.
- Responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by them.
- With other consultants in the team, have responsibility for the clinical governance of the team as clinical leads for the team.
- Work in partnership within the multidisciplinary team for the clinical management of patients. This will include risk assessment, the assessment of the needs of carers, and the development of services to meet the needs of patients and families for whom the team is responsible.
- Clinical leadership responsibility to ensure excellent systems of clinical governance so that their team provides high quality, safe care to patients. Consultants are expected to encourage a Restorative Just and Learning Culture of Learning, participate in safety huddles and investigations and participate in identifying improvements in practice where appropriate.
- Expected to be eligible for Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act. The Trust will support obtaining Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status if required.
- Participate in the BSW Consultant on call rota (currently 1 in 11 with prospective cover, paid at category A banded at 3% on call availability supplement. There is an
additional 0.5PA per month (pro rata) paid in recognition of emergency work arising from out of hours).
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Demographic context: Bath and North East Somerset Council, is a unitary authority and covers an area of 136 square miles (352 km2), of which two thirds is green belt. It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. The city contains one further education college, Bath College, and several sixth forms as part of both state, private, and public schools. Special needs education is provided by Three Ways School. Bath has two
universities: the University of Bath and Bath Spa University. It is projected that the student age population will remain significant in B&NES
Overall, comparing local indicators with England averages, the health and wellbeing of children in Bath and North East Somerset is better than England.
Please refer to the attached job description for further information on this role.
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.
- 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.
- 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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