Join us as a Consultant in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) and make a real impact on young lives across Basingstoke and North Hampshire. Based at our Bramblys site, you'll lead a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team to deliver compassionate, expert mental health care for children and adolescents facing complex challenges. With a focus on direct patient care, clinical assessments, and tailored interventions, you'll work closely with families and carers, ensuring holistic, patient-centred support.
This role offers 9 Programmed Activities (PAs) weekly, including dedicated time for professional development, teaching, and quality improvement. You'll contribute to service growth, clinical governance, and innovation within an inspiring, collaborative setting. We value your expertise and commitment, offering a supportive environment for career growth and continuous learning. If you're ready to lead, inspire, and shape the future of young people's mental health, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), you will provide clinical leadership and specialist care within a dedicated team, offering assessments, diagnosis, and evidence-based treatments for young people with complex mental health needs. You will work closely with families, carers, and multi-disciplinary colleagues, ensuring that patient-centred, holistic care remains at the core of our service.
Key duties include managing a small caseload, conducting patient assessments, developing treatment plans, and providing clinical oversight and guidance to the team. You will play a pivotal role in service development, enhancing treatment pathways and championing recovery-focused care models. You will also engage in teaching, mentoring junior doctors and other staff, and participating in audit and quality improvement initiatives.
The Basingstoke team provides community CAMHS service covering the areas around Basingstoke in the North of Hampshire. The patch is mixed, with some areas of high deprivation. Young people are seen individually and/or with their families/carers. The multi-disciplinary team is multi-skilled and enthusiastic and offers a wide range of experience and therapies including CBT and other psychotherapies, systemic therapy, creative therapy, consultation etc.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, combining the expertise and services of multiple NHS providers to deliver high-quality healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With a dedicated workforce exceeding 12,000 staff and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we offer an extensive range of services, including mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health care, reaching diverse communities across urban, rural, and coastal areas.
We are committed to delivering care with compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, ensuring that our patients and service users are at the heart of everything we do. By working closely with our partners, we're creating a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that champions staff development, well-being, and collaboration.
Join us and be part of an organisation dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare where your skills and ambitions can make a real difference to the communities we serve, now and in the future.
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential
Relevant Higher Degree e.g., MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications Full Registration with the General Medical Council MRCPsych or recognised equivalent Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 12 months of CCT at time of interview. CCT in general Child and Adolescent psychiatry. Approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983. Desirable Liaison accreditation. To hold Approved Clinician status at the point of taking up post Experience Essential Prior experience of general adult psychiatry Prior experience of working with detained/Mental Health inpatients as senior trainee or consultant. Experience of audit and an understanding of the principles of clinical governance. Desirable Proven commitment to improving the quality of clinical care. Experience of crisis, inpatient or community mental health team care for Children and Adolescents.
Employer details Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bramblys Grange Health Centre Bramblys Drive Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 8UN
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This role offers 9 Programmed Activities (PAs) weekly, including dedicated time for professional development, teaching, and quality improvement. You'll contribute to service growth, clinical governance, and innovation within an inspiring, collaborative setting. We value your expertise and commitment, offering a supportive environment for career growth and continuous learning. If you're ready to lead, inspire, and shape the future of young people's mental health, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant in Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), you will provide clinical leadership and specialist care within a dedicated team, offering assessments, diagnosis, and evidence-based treatments for young people with complex mental health needs. You will work closely with families, carers, and multi-disciplinary colleagues, ensuring that patient-centred, holistic care remains at the core of our service.
Key duties include managing a small caseload, conducting patient assessments, developing treatment plans, and providing clinical oversight and guidance to the team. You will play a pivotal role in service development, enhancing treatment pathways and championing recovery-focused care models. You will also engage in teaching, mentoring junior doctors and other staff, and participating in audit and quality improvement initiatives.
The Basingstoke team provides community CAMHS service covering the areas around Basingstoke in the North of Hampshire. The patch is mixed, with some areas of high deprivation. Young people are seen individually and/or with their families/carers. The multi-disciplinary team is multi-skilled and enthusiastic and offers a wide range of experience and therapies including CBT and other psychotherapies, systemic therapy, creative therapy, consultation etc.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, combining the expertise and services of multiple NHS providers to deliver high-quality healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With a dedicated workforce exceeding 12,000 staff and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we offer an extensive range of services, including mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health care, reaching diverse communities across urban, rural, and coastal areas.
We are committed to delivering care with compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, ensuring that our patients and service users are at the heart of everything we do. By working closely with our partners, we're creating a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that champions staff development, well-being, and collaboration.
Join us and be part of an organisation dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare where your skills and ambitions can make a real difference to the communities we serve, now and in the future.
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential
Relevant Higher Degree e.g., MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications Full Registration with the General Medical Council MRCPsych or recognised equivalent Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 12 months of CCT at time of interview. CCT in general Child and Adolescent psychiatry. Approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983. Desirable Liaison accreditation. To hold Approved Clinician status at the point of taking up post Experience Essential Prior experience of general adult psychiatry Prior experience of working with detained/Mental Health inpatients as senior trainee or consultant. Experience of audit and an understanding of the principles of clinical governance. Desirable Proven commitment to improving the quality of clinical care. Experience of crisis, inpatient or community mental health team care for Children and Adolescents.
Employer details Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bramblys Grange Health Centre Bramblys Drive Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 8UN
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
348-SS-MED-6212 #J-18808-Ljbffr
