Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

YM72

Main area CAMHS Grade YM72 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 220-036-AAC-CYP-A

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington Health Town London Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 17/11/2026

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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.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties of the post

• Provide clinical leadership and consultation to colleagues within Islington CAMHS
• Offer urgent psychiatric consultations to CYP presenting in mental health crises at the Whittington hospital
• Within Islington CAMHS, neurodevelopmental assessments for autism/ ADHD/ tics are done by other members of the MDT but the post holder will be expected to assist the MDT in diagnostic decision making via consultation. New cases allocated for treatment to the post holder will already have had an assessment. The post holder will be allocated two new cases per month.
• Support the psychiatry group by contributing to psychiatry consultations and the day time duty rota
• There is no emergency rota in Islington CAMHS. There are other services for this. However the post holder will be expected to address any emergencies for their existing patients as they arise.
• The post holder is expected to have arranged cross cover for when they are away.
• Foster good working relationships with Islington AAOT and CAMHS, NCL partners and the NCEL collaborative
• Liaise with wider networks eg social care and education, to support young people with significant mental health concerns.
• Contribute to UCLMS teaching for psychiatry and paediatrics
• Contribute to service development and innovation in line with the NCEL, NCL and national strategic aims.
• Contribute to audit, QI and research activity according to the service needs and priorities. There is a designated audit and QI lead for the service who supports all projects.
• Weekly supervision of resident doctors.

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Training

• 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
• 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

Other

• Experience of audit and outcome monitorin
• Competence in delivering evidence- based practice
• Compliance with national and professional guidelines
• Membership of Medical Defence organisation
• Capacity to be in a leadership role contributing to clinical governance and strategy for child and adolescent mental health

Skills & Experience

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

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

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Our processes -

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
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• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Aspa Paspali Job title Consultant & CAMHS Clinical Lead Email address aspa.paspali@nhs.net Telephone number 020 3316 1824 Additional information

Dr Anna Picciotto, Associate Director of CAMHS and Mental Health, , on 020 3316 1824 email :a.picciotto@nhs.net

Dr Rebecca Lancaster , Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Paediatric Mental Health Team , email : rebecca.lancaster20@nhs.net

Dr Sharon D’Souza, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Director, CYPICSU, Whittington Health NHS Trust email : sharon.d'souza@nhs.net

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Whittington Health NHS Trust
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