Coastal Sussex CAMHS Service have an exciting opportunity for a permanent, Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Consultant Psychiatrist to join their locality team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an integral part in prioritising the delivery of a safe, effective and caring service to those children and young people (0yrs-18yrs). Psychiatrists are integral for driving change and influencing service development. The Trust has ambitious aims to continuously improve for the good of our patients and we welcome clinical and non-clinical views in order to achieve this together.

You will work as part of a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team which includes nurses, psychologists, systemic family therapists and child psychotherapists. This post will work alongside other Consultants and Specialty Doctors who work in Sussex CAMHS. You will also be part of a Trust wide Consultant network where there are opportunities to liaise with colleagues in other posts throughout the Trust and develop peer networks.

This job attracts a Recruitment and Retention payment of £45,000 structured over a three-year period as follows:
o £15,000 payable upon successful recruitment
o £10,000 payable at 12 months’ service
o £10,000 payable at 24 months’ service
o £10,000 payable at 36 months’ service

The service we provide is in line with NICE Evidenced Based Treatment for those children and young people. You will provide high quality specialist clinical assessments, including relevant psychiatric and physical investigation to children, young people and their families in a range of settings, and work collaboratively with other members of the team to plan and deliver appropriate individually tailored treatment plans.

To provide medical psychiatric assessment and intervention, including pharmacology and mental health act assessments to CAMHS in Coastal West Sussex ( Chichester and Worthing Bases ) ensuring best quality and most effective psychiatric care, working within a multi-disciplinary team.
To work as part of the multi-professional team providing high quality specialist CAMHS clinical advice, assessment and intervention to children and young people in the area in a range of settings.
To engage families/carers in planning and provision of care.
To provide timely advice and consultation to GP’s, social services and other referrers, facilitating appropriate access to services.

Not only will you be working in a county with areas of outstanding beauty such as the south downs, and the 137 miles of coastline, along with exciting cities such as Brighton & Hove - the Trust also offers:

Relocation expenses of up to £8,00.00 subject to role and policy requirements
Excellent pension contributions of 23.7%
Flexible working opportunities
Bespoke, flexible job plans
30 days of study leave over a 3-year period supported by a study leave allowance each year.
Opportunities to become a medical appraiser.
Opportunities to become a clinical/educational supervisor.
Monthly Medical Advisory Committees (MACs) which offer further peer support.
Responsibility allowances for specific roles and responsibilities
A variety of wellbeing support and tools, such as an Employee Assistance Programme, financial wellbeing, Occupational Health etc
8 Staff Networks such, ethnic minority, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, women's network, to name a few

We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees. We also provide training for medical students and Physician Associate students from BSMS.

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Our values are to be compassionate, accountable and optimistic. The Trust has built our future focus 2025-2030 which outlines our vision, purpose, ambitions and objectives which incorporates these values and behaviours. Our strategy can be viewed here .

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, homeworking, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we will do our best to make it happen.

Living and working in Sussex brings with it many benefits, such as:

Stunning countryside and coastlines which are easily accessible throughout the county.
Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park
Transport links which provide easy access to London, and all of its main airports
Vibrant cities that offer an array of restaurants and bars for social events

For a comprehensive understanding and full details of the responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description document. It contains all the necessary information and should provide you with a clear overview of what it expected.