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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Contact

Address: Trust Headquarters; Warneford Hospital; Warneford Lane; Headington; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX3 7JX
Contact Number: 01865 901000

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Ref: 267-BaNESCONS-139-E Vacancy ID: 8245730

Consultant Psychiatrist - CAMHS Getting More Help - Keynsham

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2026 23:59

Location

Site: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Keynsham
Address: Temple House, Temple Court
Town: Keynsham
Postcode: BS31 1HA
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent: Full time and part time applications accepted

Hours

Full time
Part time
Flexible working

10 sessions per week

Salary

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Main area: Community CAMHS

Interview date: 25/09/2026

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Demographic context

Bath and North East Somerset Council, is a unitary authority and covers an area of 136 square miles (352 km2), of which two thirds is green belt. It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. The city contains one further education college, Bath College, and several sixth forms as part of both state, private, and public schools. Special needs education is provided by Three Ways School. Bath has two universities: the University of Bath and Bath Spa University. It is projected that the student age population will remain significant in B&NES.

Overall, comparing local indicators with England averages, the health and wellbeing of children in Bath and North East Somerset is better than England.

CAMH Services in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)

From 1st April 2010 the Trust has been providing CAMHS services in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire. This covers a large rural area, with Swindon being the largest town. This area of service delivery is organised around community team bases: Swindon, Marlborough (for East Wiltshire), Melksham (for West Wiltshire), Salisbury (for South Wiltshire) and Keynsham for Bath and North-East Somerset (BaNES). CAMHS has good links with partner agencies.

The BSW CAMH service provides a hospital liaison service to the three district general hospitals in the patch: Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, Great Western Hospital, Swindon and Royal United Hospitals (RUH), Bath and provides training to staff on the paediatric ward.

BSW also operates a dedicated eating disorder service (TEDS), with specialist teams in each of the CAMHS bases. Referrals of children and young people with suspected eating disorders are sent directly to this service.

There is a CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment service embedded in the CAMHS teams with an over arching clinical leadership and operational management senior leadership team.

Oxford Health hosts the Thames Valley New Care Model adolescent inpatient network with a single point of access via Marlborough House, Swindon, which covers B&NES, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Swindon and Wiltshire. The local inpatient service for young people aged 11-18 is provided from Marlborough House, Swindon, which is a general adolescent unit that also includes an eating disorders programme. Oxford Health also runs the Highfield General Adolescent Unit at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford and the Meadow Unit (PICU).

There is also an adolescent Hospital at Home service for Eating Disorders and adolescent Hospital at Home service for young people with Learning Disability and Autism.

The BSW-wide service model has been in place since October 2010 and has improved CAMHS outcomes for children and young people in Wiltshire, Swindon and B&NES. The service was re-commissioned in 2017 on a 7 + 3 year contract.

In addition, Oxford Health has been commissioned to provide Forensic CAMHS services (FCAMHS) for the South West (North) region, covering BSW, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. The service launched in April 2018.

There are Medical Lead roles for All Age Eating Disorders, Neuro-developmental Conditions, Learning Disability, Non-Medical Prescribing and Crisis, who work alongside the Clinical Leads in these areas.

This post provides an excellent opportunity for a consultant to be working with a successful CAMH Service, implementing an exciting and innovative service model for children and young people’s mental health.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria

Medical degree
Fully registered with the General Medical Council
Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.

Desirable criteria

MSc or higher degree
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of clinical work in specialty at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices

Desirable criteria

Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health

Clinical, Teaching and Research

Essential criteria

Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
Experience in teaching resident doctors
Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice.