Job summary
The CYPF Directorate brings together specialist and community pathways designed to meet the diverse needs of young people. We spread across three localities covering the area from Cambridgeshire across Peterborough and south Lincolnshire with three main bases: Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough.There are also community paediatrics services in our directorate including paediatric therapies: speech and language, dietetics, occupational therapy.
North CAMHS forms part of the wider CYPF mental health offer and provides community based assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for children and young people experiencing emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties.
The team works closely with local partners including schools, primary care, social care, paediatrics, and voluntary sector services to deliver holistic and evidence based interventions. Pathways within North CAMHS include Core CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessment, crisis response, and targeted support for young people with complex mental health presentations.
North CAMHS is a committed, multidisciplinary service that places the voice of the young person at the centre of care. We strive to deliver compassionate, timely, and collaborative interventions that promote positive outcomes and sustained wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, evidence based Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service across Community CAMHS pathways, providing expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people with a broad range of mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and ensuring full compliance with national standards, NHS policy, and CPFT governance.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical leadershipa) Provide senior medical leadership to the North CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.b) Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.c) Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.d) Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.e) There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.
2. Direct clinical carea) Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway includingb) Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.c) Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.d) Participate in the directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.
3. System flowa) Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.b) Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission
4. Clinical Governance and Qualitya) Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.b) Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust widec) Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.d) Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trusts clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.e) Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
5. Workforce, Training & Supervisiona) Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.b) Upskill and support junior colleagues and teams CPD programme for other disciplinesc) Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.
6. Strategic Developmenta) Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs led service to young people across the trust
Notes7. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.8. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements, including the possibility of the work base changing to one of the other Community CAMHS services within the Trust boundary of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Such a change would be discussed with the post holder and would form the basis of a revised job plan.9. The job plan is subject to review annually by the Consultant and Associate Clinical Director. All consultants participate in annual appraisal and will re-validate with the General Medical Council. Collection of 360-degree feedback and patient feedback for these purposes is now routine.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical leadershipa) Provide senior medical leadership to the North CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.b) Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.c) Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in-patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.d) Provide consultation to multi-agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.e) There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.
2. Direct clinical carea) Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS pathway includingb) Work flexibly and manage clinical complexity, including working with young people and families with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders.c) Contribute to the daytime duty consultant rota for the service which supports the duty CAMHS practitioners and paediatric wards for urgent assessments and advice.d) Participate in the directorate wide consultant out of hours on-call rota (currently 1 in 8) paid at Band A, 5% supplement. Provide non-residential, on call advice/supervision to doctors in training grades and duty CAMH practitioners, 24/7 nurse led all age telephone crisis service and CAMH crisis service.
3. System flowa) Review of the wait lists and caseloads alongside monitoring of the capacity and demands and clinical thresholds alongside operational management.b) Support return to the community for young people requiring a period of in-patient admission
4. Clinical Governance and Qualitya) Contribute to system wide working and attending cross locality CAMHS or CYPF meetings as required to support service development, consistency of practice, and adherence to Trust clinical standards.b) Contribute to the clinical governance forums in locality and trust widec) Lead quality improvement initiatives aligned with Trust and national priorities.d) Ensure compliance with CQC, Royal College, and trusts clinical quality frameworks, including audit, incident review, PSIRF, and QI methodology.e) Maintain standards in safe prescribing, physical health monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
5. Workforce, Training & Supervisiona) Undertake the role of Clinical and Educational Supervisor for resident doctors in psychiatry and general practice.b) Upskill and support junior colleagues and teams CPD programme for other disciplinesc) Support induction and ongoing development of the multidisciplinary team.Contribute to consultant-level leadership forums within the directorate and trust wide.
6. Strategic Developmenta) Take a leadership role in ongoing CAMHS Transformation work that aims to provide integrated, efficient and effective needs led service to young people across the trust
Notes7. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.8. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements, including the possibility of the work base changing to one of the other Community CAMHS services within the Trust boundary of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Such a change would be discussed with the post holder and would form the basis of a revised job plan.9. The job plan is subject to review annually by the Consultant and Associate Clinical Director. All consultants participate in annual appraisal and will re-validate with the General Medical Council. Collection of 360-degree feedback and patient feedback for these purposes is now routine.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration and license to practice
- MRCPsych or equivalent qualification/certification
- Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to obtain training
- Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training
Entry criteria for the grade
Essential
- Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or CESR or within 6 months of attainment of CCT /CESR at time of interview.
- Shall have equivalent experience and competencies as recognised by GMC
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of good working relationships
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of training doctors in training.
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experiences relevant to this post
Skills/Ability/ Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Decision-making and problem-solving skills including children and young people
- Management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to take a clinical lead.
- Able and willing to represent department at Trust wide meetings.
- Able to work and build relationships with others.
- Ability to travel
Desirable
- Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, parenting programmes
- Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.
Academic skills, lifelong learning abilities
Essential
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
Desirable
- Published on a relevant subject in a peer reviewed journal
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Participated in quality/service improvement initiative
- Led a clinical audit leading to significant change
- Evidence of achievement in oEducation, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
Qualities/Attributes
Essential
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice
- Approachable and flexible.
- Reliable.
- Ability to demonstrate/develop an understanding of service within the wider context of the changing NHS and Mental Health Services
- Able to tolerate clinical complexity, uncertainty, and change
Desirable
- Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints
Equality
Essential
- Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration and license to practice
- MRCPsych or equivalent qualification/certification
- Section 12 Approved Psychiatrist or willingness to obtain training
- Approved Clinician Status or willingness to obtain training
Entry criteria for the grade
Essential
- Specialist Registration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or CESR or within 6 months of attainment of CCT /CESR at time of interview.
- Shall have equivalent experience and competencies as recognised by GMC
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of good working relationships
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of training doctors in training.
Desirable
- Wide range of specialist and sub- specialist experiences relevant to this post
Skills/Ability/ Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Decision-making and problem-solving skills including children and young people
- Management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to take a clinical lead.
- Able and willing to represent department at Trust wide meetings.
- Able to work and build relationships with others.
- Ability to travel
Desirable
- Training/skills in a relevant therapeutic modality e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, parenting programmes
- Experience in clinical management of Learning Disability presentations.
Academic skills, lifelong learning abilities
Essential
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
Desirable
- Published on a relevant subject in a peer reviewed journal
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Participated in quality/service improvement initiative
- Led a clinical audit leading to significant change
- Evidence of achievement in oEducation, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
Qualities/Attributes
Essential
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice
- Approachable and flexible.
- Reliable.
- Ability to demonstrate/develop an understanding of service within the wider context of the changing NHS and Mental Health Services
- Able to tolerate clinical complexity, uncertainty, and change
Desirable
- Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints
Equality
Essential
- Demonstrate understanding of acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
