Locum Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-North

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Locum Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-North

The closing date is 28 July 2026

North CAMHS forms part of the wider CYPF mental health offer and provides community based assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for children and young people experiencing emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties. The team works closely with local partners including schools, primary care, social care, paediatrics, and voluntary sector services to deliver holistic and evidence based interventions. Pathways within North CAMHS include Core CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessment, crisis response, and targeted support for young people with complex mental health presentations.

North CAMHS is a committed, multidisciplinary service that places the voice of the young person at the centre of care. We strive to deliver compassionate, timely, and collaborative interventions that promote positive outcomes and sustained wellbeing. Community paediatric therapy services, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy and Community Physical Health services for CYP are co-located with CAMHs in Peterborough.

The principal purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, evidence based Child and Adolescent Psychiatry service across Community CAMHS pathways, providing expert clinical leadership, assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people with a broad range of mental health and neurodevelopmental needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and ensuring full compliance with national standards, NHS policy, and CPFT governance.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

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1. Clinical leadership

• Provide medical leadership to the North CAMHs, ensuring high-quality clinical assessment, decision-making and safe psychiatric management including timely discharge and follow up.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing psychiatric expertise to case formulations, risk planning, and the development of care pathways.
• Lead on the interface with partner services including home treatment team and the crisis team and in‑patient services, as well as primary care and education and social care.
• Provide consultation to multi‑agency colleagues working with children and young people and lead on management of safeguarding needs that arise in accordance with local and national best practice standards.
• There are opportunities for clinical leadership of neurodevelopmental assessment pathway as well.

2. Direct clinical care

• Provide high quality assessment, formulation, and treatment for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs within the community CAMHS…