Consultant Psychiatrist (CAMHS Eating Disorder)

Job description

A specialist healthcare service is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join an Adolescent Inpatient Eating Disorder ward. This is a part-time role of 15 hours per week (2 days). The service provides exceptional care across a range of mental health issues, including eating disorders. The multidisciplinary team delivers personalised treatment programs within a calm, therapeutic environment. --- ### **What you’ll be doing** You will join a compassionate team committed to patient wellbeing, using a personalised, evidence-based approach to support recovery. Key responsibilities include: - Conducting comprehensive assessments and developing treatment plans alongside the multidisciplinary team. - Leading ward rounds, MDT meetings, and overseeing complex clinical cases, including risk management. - Supporting patients and families with treatment planning, relapse prevention, and recovery. - Providing supervision to junior staff and contributing to service quality, compliance, and improvement initiatives. - Collaborating with site leadership to enhance service delivery and patient experience. Further details are available in the job description. --- ### **What you’ll bring to the role** The role is rewarding but challenging, requiring resilience, empathy, and strong clinical leadership. The ideal candidate will: - Be a fully registered medical practitioner with the GMC, hold a licence to practise, and be on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. - Hold Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician status. - Have experience managing complex cases of eating disorders in an inpatient adolescent setting. - Demonstrate strong clinical leadership, risk management expertise, and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. --- ### **What we will give you in return** You will be supported to succeed and develop through structured career conversations, training, and opportunities into senior clinical and leadership roles. Benefits include: - Free on-site parking - Supplemented meals - 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata) - Additional birthday leave - Enhanced maternity pay - Contributory pension scheme - Flexible benefits, including gym membership, IT technology schemes, and healthcare cash plan - Access to development and training opportunities - Sponsorship for professional qualifications via an Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel - Leadership and management development programmes - Long service awards - Refer-a-friend bonuses