Specialty doctor East CAMHS; Oak Lane Clinic

Job Summary

To provide psychiatric support to the Barnet East Generic CAMH Service. Weekly supervision will be provided by the consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist.

The Barnet East Generic CAMHS team is based at Oak Lane Clinic, Oak lane, Finchley, London N2 8LT
. It is a multi-disciplinary team for Barnet young people up to their 18th birthday.

The post is for a Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry to work with children presenting with mental health difficulties in the generic CAMHS pathway. It is a fixed‑term post created to cover increased demand and the maternity leave of a consultant psychiatrist. This post‑holder will be professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer of BEH Mental Health NHS Trust & C&I Foundation Trust partnership, and managerially to the Medical Director of the CAMHS Division.

Barnet CAMHS is transforming its clinical services in line with the Thrive Model with a stepped offer of care within two pathways:
Generic CAMHS Emotional and Behavioural/ADHD pathway and Neurodevelopmental (ASD/LD) pathway.

This fixed‑term specialty doctor post is in a well‑functioning multidisciplinary team and offers the holder the opportunity to learn, train and develop skills towards becoming a consultant within the team.

• Compliance with legal obligations covering clinical practice (e.g., Mental Health Act and Code Practice, The Children Act, etc.)
• Compliance with Trust procedures that involve users in their care
• Compliance with Trust procedures with regard to responsibility to carers
• Compliance with procedures whereby doctors report concerns about the professional conduct or competence of medical colleagues
• Participating in medical and multidisciplinary audit and other procedures for clinical governance
• Compliance with the regulations of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on Continuing Professional Development

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• Provide consistently high‑quality care closer to home.
• Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
• Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• Be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Date posted: 12 February 2026

Pay scheme:
Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade:
Specialty Doctor

Salary: £61,542 to £99,216 a year plus £2,162 London Zone Weighting per year

Contract:

Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern:
Full‑time

Reference number: 455‑NLFT‑0654

Job locations:
Oak Lane Clinic, Oak Lane, Finchley, London N2 8LT

The role of ensuring that clinical care provided to service users is of high quality and is provided within the Trust’s policy framework. The post holder will have a caseload of about 60 cases. The post holder will undertake the necessary clinical administrative duties associated with providing excellent patient care and will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team, attending team meetings and providing advice and support.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the further transformation of the service and participating in QI projects.
• Ensuring all cases are appropriately allocated to professionals within the team’s expertise and skills.
• Playing a role in implementing children and young people’s IAPT.
• Diagnosing, formulating, treating and managing children and young people with complex and severe mental health disorders.
• Engaging with other parts of CAMHS, primary care, social services and other agencies.
• Having primary responsibility for cases with direct face‑to‑face contact and shared responsibility on collaborative cases.
• Ensuring all cases receive appropriate treatment modalities within existing resources.
• Being available to other professionals to discuss cases.
• Managing an established caseload, including neurodevelopmental cases some of whom may be on medication.
• Assessing newly allocated cases and formulating suitable treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues.
• Completing relevant…