Consultant Community CAMHS 20% Golden Hello | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 Dependant on experience + 20% Golden Hello |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 December 2025 |
| Location: | Newark, NG24 3HJ |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7642990/18657493KF |
Summary
Job Overview
⚕️ Consultant Psychiatrist – CAMHS Community North Team
Location:North Nottinghamshire (Newark, Sherwood & Bassetlaw)
Employer:Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Contract:Full-time, Permanent
✨ An Exciting Opportunity to Make a Difference
Are you passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? We are seeking a dedicatedConsultant Psychiatristto join ourCommunity North CAMHS Teamwithin Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a full-time post inChild and Adolescent Psychiatry, offering the chance to work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team and 15 consultant colleagues across CAMHS. You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people across Newark, Sherwood, and Bassetlaw.
What We Offer
• A supportive and collaborative environment within one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands.
• Opportunities for professional development, including participation in our academic programme and CPD activities.
• Access to staff wellbeing initiatives and inclusive staff networks.
• A commitment to sustainability and innovation as part of our net-zero journey.
✔ What We’re Looking For
• MRCPsychandCCT or CESRin Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (or within 6 months of eligibility).
• Inclusion on the Specialist Register (or anticipated within six months).
• Approved underSection 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
• Ability to travel between clinical bases.
• Commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care.
• Apply now and make a real difference in the lives of children and young people.
For more information or a visit please contact pallab.majumder@nottshc.nhs.uk
About the Role
• Provide psychiatric expertise in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning for complex cases.
• Offer clinical leadership and consultation to the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in the CAMHS Consultant on-call rota (currently 1 in 10).
• Contribute to service development and business planning for CAMHS.
Main Duties of the Job
• Manage, appraise, and supervise junior medical staff.
• Ensure compliance with Working Time Directive and New Deal requirements.
• Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care.
• Accurately record and submit clinical activity data.
• Attend and contribute to the Trust’s academic programme and CPD activities.
• Maintain GMC registration, Section 12(2) approval, and professional standards.
• Provide consultation to the MDT on assessment, diagnosis, pharmacological treatment, Mental Health Act application, and management of complex cases.
• Offer clinical leadership and contribute to emergency cross-cover arrangements.
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
This is a full-time post based in Nottinghamshire. The service has been established for many years and has a comprehensive treatment programme but there are opportunities for further development of the service. The caseload will be between 60-70, depending on current team caseload. The team receive an average of ---45-- new referrals per month- fluctuating between --18---and--60-- in a single calendar month. The Consultant would not be involved with all cases and involvement would be following MDT discussion and agreement around the need for involvement. Young people open to the team will typically have a care coordinator and/or therapist in addition to consultant support where medical involvement is required.
There are no special responsibilities associated with this post.
The Consultant will work with the rest of the clinical team to ensure the delivery of a high-quality evidence-based service to children and young people open to them.
The Trust is committed to ensuring the use of The Care Programme Approach to ensure continuity of care and identification of needs for all children and young people in services as required by clinical need. The Consultant will not be expected to act as care co-ordinator.
If the appointed doctor is trained as a clinical supervisor and eligible for trainees, then they may have trainees in post. The post holder will be encouraged to act as clinical supervisor for trainee resident doctors in post. The post is approved for CT placements.
The post-holder is expected to provide consultation to the multidisciplinary team to offer psychiatric expertise and direct involvement in the areas of assessment and diagnosis, pharmacological treatments, use of the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation in the management of children and young people, and the management of complex and/or risky presentations and severe symptomatology.
The Consultant will provide clinical leadership to the team.
The Consultant will have management supervision with their line Manager and peer supervision from within the Consultant group as required
This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026
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