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 Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

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If you are asked to make a payment in connection with an NHS job opportunity, please treat this as suspicious and contact the organisation directly using the details published on our official career's website. 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