Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist – Canterbury & Coastal

Overview

In this role you will join the Canterbury and Coastal CAMHS Community team to provide expert psychiatric care for children and young people. You will balance autonomous clinical practice with collaboration across a multidisciplinary team to deliver assessment, treatment, and care planning for a range of neurodevelopmental and mood disorders. You will support evidence-based practice, education, and service development, helping to improve access and outcomes for under-18s across the Canterbury area. This is an opportunity to shape child and adolescent mental health care within a Trust committed to caring, inclusive and collaborative values.

Pay / Benefits

• Recruitment bonus of 20,000
• Relocation support up to 8,000
• NHS pension scheme
• Flexible working
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Blue Light Card

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous, GMC-registered clinical care within Trust guidelines
• Maintain full GMC licence and professional accountability for practice
• Develop and implement care plans for complex paediatric patients
• Initiate referrals to specialist services as needed
• Educate patients and families to support informed choices and quality of life
• Ensure practice is underpinned by research, evidence and peer review
• Deliver care in line with MHA and MCA obligations
• Contribute to service delivery, evaluation of outcomes, and continuous improvement

Key requirements

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Fully registered with the GMC with Licence to Practise
• On the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of completing CCT in psychiatry
• Approved Clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• MRCPsych (Desirable)
• Experience managing a broad range of paediatric mental disorders and neurodevelopmental conditions
• Ability to work with interpreters and diverse backgrounds

• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Team leadership and collaborative working
• Bio-psycho-social approach
• Mastery of paediatric mental disorders including neurodevelopmental disorders
• Experience with short-term psychological therapy (Desirable)

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