Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Bristol Central & East

Closing date: 29 July 2026

Job summary
Join a well-established, highly regarded multidisciplinary CAMHS team serving the diverse communities of East Central Bristol.

This exciting role offers responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment of children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health needs referred to East Central Bristol CAMHS. Working alongside an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist, you will provide clinical leadership within a supportive and collaborative service.

East Central Bristol CAMHS delivers a comprehensive Tier 2/3 service, providing assessment, treatment and consultation to Tier 1 services. The clinical focus is on supporting young people with the most complex and severe mental health presentations.

You will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team including Psychologists, Nurses, Family Therapists, Psychotherapists and Primary Mental Health Specialists, delivering high-quality, integrated care to young people and their families.

The service is currently implementing the i-THRIVE model, offering an opportunity to contribute to service transformation and partnership working across health, education and social care.

The post is supported by a Core Psychiatry Trainee (CT3), rotating every six months, and, where an Educational Supervisor is in post, a Higher Specialty Trainee (ST4-ST6), rotating annually.

This is an excellent opportunity to help shape specialist CAMHS provision while making a lasting difference to children, young people and families.

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment for children, young people and families with severe and complex mental health difficulties within East Central Bristol CAMHS.

The postholder will hold psychiatric responsibility for patients seen by medical staff and work closely with care coordinators and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality care. The role does not routinely include care coordination, and all patients on the consultant caseload will have an allocated care coordinator.

Responsibilities include undertaking new assessments, providing follow-up reviews, offering consultation and advice to colleagues and partner agencies, and contributing to multi-agency working. The postholder will also support urgent and unplanned clinical work as required.

Follow-up appointments will be based on clinical need and may include medication reviews, mental state monitoring and joint reviews with care coordinators.

Referrals are allocated collaboratively between consultant psychiatrists according to clinical complexity, specialist interests and service demands. There will be opportunities to develop a special clinical interest aligned to local service needs.

The consultant will provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team, working alongside senior clinical colleagues, the Clinical Service Manager and Team Manager to support the delivery and ongoing development of high-quality CAMHS services.

About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

Please note that Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is not currently a sponsor under the GMC Sponsorship Scheme. As a result, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require GMC sponsorship

Details
Date posted: 09 July 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 342-RVN051-SSC-PP-D
Job locations: Barton Hill Settlement, 43 Ducie Road, Bristol, BS5 0AX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC Registration or eligibility to be included on the register and holding a current licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of gaining CCT in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Section 12 approval/ Approved Clinician Status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

Desirable

• Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MD, PHD, Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
• MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Additional clinical qualifications

Experience
Essential

• Wide breadth of clinical experience working with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
• Knowledge and evidence of participation in CPD.
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement.
• Evidence of effective multi-agency working

Desirable

• Specific additional therapy training (e.g. Positive Behavioural Support, CBT, systemic therapy, DBT etc.)

Personal Skills
Essential

• To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Clinical Skills
Essential

• Skills in psychiatric assessment, formulation and risk management (including safeguarding) as well as psychopharmacology in children, neurodevelopmental disorders and attachment difficulties.

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.

Teaching
Essential

• Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.
• Understand principles of teaching.

Research & Audit
Essential

• Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
• Ability to supervise junior medical staff undertaking research projects.
• Experience of carrying out an audit project

Management
Essential

• Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead for CAMHS
Dr Fiona Barlow
View email address on meeveem.com