We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Crisis and Liaison team, working across Frimley and Redhill. You will play a key role in supporting children and young people under 18 who are experiencing a mental health crisis, providing expert clinical input, assessment, and treatment within a well‑established multi-disciplinary team. The Crisis Intervention Service (CIS) provides timely mental health support to children and young people seen in hospital emergency departments, community settings, or referred through our 24/7 CYPS Crisis Line. You will work closely with colleagues from mental health, education, paediatrics, and social care to deliver effective, evidence‑based care and help prevent hospital admissions where possible.
This role offers the opportunity to contribute to service development, clinical leadership, and ongoing improvement of crisis pathways across Surrey. You will also be encouraged to take part in teaching, training, and quality improvement initiatives within a supportive and forward‑thinking Trust. The consultant’s duties will be predominantly devoted to the care and treatment of children and young people (under 18 years old) in our crisis pathway, with interface with social care, paediatric acute colleagues and Hope Service counterparts, and travel between multiple sites within your working day.
Responsibilities
- Provide diagnostic, assessment and treatment service for children and adolescents with mental health problems.
- Adopt a multi‑disciplinary approach to care, promoting high‑quality multidisciplinary working and relationships.
- Provide psychiatric support and consultation to other team members.
- Provide consultation and liaison with other services, including social services, residential settings and education.
- Hold clinical responsibility for your caseload of patients.
- Promote the development of close and effective working relationships with colleagues in allied agencies, notably children’s services and education.
Qualifications
- MBBS or equivalent recognised medical qualification.
- Full medical registration with a licence to practice.
- Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act (or within 6 to 12 months of interview) or equivalent.
- Relevant higher degree (e.g. MD, PhD, MSc) or other additional clinical qualifications.
- MRCPsych or equivalent.
- Management qualification or evidence of an interest in developing leadership skills.
- Good standing with the GMC concerning warnings and conditions on practice.
- Approved clinician status or ability to achieve within three months of appointment.
- Knowledge of legislation, Department of Health guidance and literature and its implications for clinical practice.
- Knowledge of NHS strategic vision in the Next Stage Review (High‑Quality Care for All).
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Experience working with various patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across different care settings, including community, inpatient and specialist teams.
- Knowledge of psychiatric provision.
- Experience in management.
- Specific training qualification or certificate, or attendance on a recognised teaching course.
- Ability to take a clinical leadership role in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high‑quality care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups under New Ways of Working.
- High‑level ability to effectively communicate complex and clinically sensitive information to patients, families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS, at both written and oral levels.
- Ability to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
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