Job Title: Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Agency: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

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Job summary

We are pleased to invite enthusiastic and dynamic candidates to join our team. This is a new permanent 10 PA role which has been created to meet the increasing demand for children’s mental health services in the borough.

This is a split role between community CAMHS and the Paediatric Mental Health team (PMHT) at the Whittington hospital, where you will be based for one day a week.

You will support Islington community CAMHS by providing clinical leadership, psychiatric consultations, and appropriate interventions as needed, and will provide clinical leadership to the Paediatric Liaison Team with an emphasis on crisis assessments and management. There are opportunities for paediatric liaison work if this is in the post holder’s interests.

Interview date: 17th November 2026

**Please note that as per our Trust processes you will be expected to make yourself available to attend a face-to-face interview if successfully short listed for this post.**

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Inclusion on the GMC’s Specialist Register or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register for Psychiatry (CCST or equivalent) or within 6 months of award of CCST by date of interview.

Training

Essential

• Training and experience of safeguarding, governance and legislation issues specific to children and adolescents
• Section 12 (20) and AC Approval (Mental Health Act) or willing to apply for such approval once in post

Desirable

• Additional training or experience in therapeutic modalities applicable to children, young people and families (CBT, DBT, systemic or psychodynamic psychotherapy)
• Experience of mental health work in child health settings
• ADOS trained

Other

Essential

• Experience of audit and outcome monitoring
• Competence in delivering evidence- based practice
• Compliance with national and professional guidelines
• Membership of Medical Defence organisation

Desirable

• Capacity to be in a leadership role contributing to clinical governance and strategy for child and adolescent mental health

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Wide experience of therapeutic work with children and young people and their families/carers, including psychopharmacology
• Experience of managing complexity and risk in acute and crisis settings
• Experience in assessment and management of young people presenting with mental health emergencies
• Experience and knowledge of multi- disciplinary, multi-agency working with children
• Experience of teaching, supervision and consultation for doctors at undergraduate and postgraduate level and MDT staff
• Highly developed skills in analysis and formulation of clinical problems and a high level of competence in verbal and written communications to a multi-agency audience

Desirable

• Clinical interest/ experience in the specialist area of CAMHS crisis and/ or Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
• Experience of research and submitting publications

Closing Date: 4 October 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online for this job

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