Job overview

We are delighted to offer this opportunity for a Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join the Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine service covering maternity leave. This is a 12-month post commencing mid-October 2025, working 3 days / week, currently Monday - Wednesday.  

We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and experienced Locum Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist looking to work with children and young people within a paediatric acute hospital setting.  You will be joining an experienced Child & Adolescent Psychiatry team embedded and fully integrated into the UCLH Children & Young People Division. 

You will join a vibrant multidisciplinary team to support paediatric liaison work to a highly complex and diverse patient group. The Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine/ Services provides assessments, consultation and interventions for patients being treated at UCLH with medical conditions and experiencing emotional, psychological, behavioural difficulties or mental illness. This includes for children and young people presenting in mental health / psychosocial crisis to the Emergency Department, as well as patients receiving treatment as in-patients or out-patients under one of the UCLH teams within the Children & Young People (formerly Paediatric & Adolescent) Division.

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Main duties of the job

You will provide Child & Adolescent Psychiatry input to the Paediatric Emergency Department; T12 South Adolescent ward; T11 South paediatric ward; and to T11 & T12 North wards, providing Child & Adolescent Psychiatry input to the UCLH Paediatric Oncology service and the Teenage & Young Adult Cancer Service, as part of the Psych-Oncology team. Your role will include providing psychiatric consultation, assessment and treatment to specialist teams within the Children & Young People Division, including a specialist Adolescent Gastroenterology MDT, The Lighthouse (specialist service for CYP survivors of Child Sexual Abuse) and the development of the 0-5 offer from psychological medicine.

You will share responsibilities for the assessment and day to day psychiatric care of the in-patients and day-patients admitted to the paediatric department at UCLH, providing supervision and support to the CTs, STs and Mental Health Nursing team. 

You will assess referrals on admission through the Paediatric Emergency Department, complete mental state examinations and risk assessments, liaise with community child and adolescent mental health services to develop safe discharge plans, and oversee completion of discharge summaries. You will support and oversee making referrals to community CAMHS teams, CAMHS Crisis Teams and Tier 4 in-patient psychiatric units as required. You will also play a role in thinking about Child Safeguarding. 

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. 
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 
•    University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 
•    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 
•    Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 
•    University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 
•    Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 
•    University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 
•    The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 
•    University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. 
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.