Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Bristol Central & East

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