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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMHS Inpatient Services to join a highly regarded mental health service in South West England. This role offers the chance to help shape and develop a brand-new purpose-built 8-bed High Intensity Environment / PICU service alongside an established adolescent inpatient unit. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an experienced multidisciplinary team and another substantive CAMHS Consultant, providing expert psychiatric care for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
Job Responsibility:
Provide consultant psychiatric leadership within inpatient CAMHS services
Conduct psychiatric assessments, diagnoses, and treatment planning for young people with complex presentations
Manage detained patients under the Mental Health Act where required
Participate in ward rounds, CPA reviews, family meetings, and discharge planning
Deliver tribunal reports and medico-legal documentation
Support safe admissions, risk management, and crisis intervention
Help develop and operationalise the new CAMHS PICU/High-Intensity Unit
Lead and support multidisciplinary teams
Contribute to transformation programmes and pathway redesign
Participate in governance, quality improvement, and service innovation
Supervise junior doctors and trainees
Support the teaching of medical students and postgraduate trainees
Provide educational leadership within the department
Requirements:
MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise
MRCPsych or equivalent recognised qualification
On the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT
Specialist registration in Psychiatry
Section 12 approved
Approved Clinician status
Minimum 1 year NHS experience
Excellent knowledge in CAMHS psychiatry
Strong multidisciplinary team working experience
Ability to work under the MHA and MCA frameworks
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Nice to have:
Higher degree in education, management, or research
Additional clinical qualifications
Experience outside psychiatry (medicine / GP)
Broad specialist or sub-specialist CAMHS experience