We are delighted to offer this unique opportunity for an Academic Clinical Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join the Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine service. This is a 12-month fixed term post from April 2025 – March 2026.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Academic Clinical Fellow looking to broaden their experience in multidisciplinary medical education alongside clinical 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.
In your academic role, you will be deputy to the UCL Medical School Child & Adolescent Mental Health Lead, taking a Leadership role in overseeing, managing and helping deliver the Year 5 Medical Student programme. This will include recruiting lecturers to deliver sessions, developing educational materials, delivering lectures/workshops on-line and in person. You will work alongside the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry team, and with 2 Academic Clinical Fellows in Paediatrics within the Division. Also, with UCL Year 5 Medical School administrators. You will also help to develop and deliver a training programme for Acute Hospital Staff on Children & Young People Mental Health.
In your clinical role, 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.
You will provide Child & Adolescent Psychiatry input to the Paediatric Emergency Department; T12 South Adolescent (13-18yrs) ward;T11 South (
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
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Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
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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.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
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You will be supported and supervised by our four highly experienced Consultant Psychiatrists. There is the opportunity to work with a range of mental health presentations and use evidence-based treatments. The team also includes one child and adolescent psychiatry specialty trainee (ST) and one or two psychiatry core trainees (CTs) and 2 CYP Mental Health Liaison Clinical Nurse Specialists. You and the CTs will cross-cover each other for leave where possible.
You will be responsible for the assessment and day to day psychiatric care of the in-patients and day-patients admitted to the paediatric department at UCLH under the supervision of the STs and consultant psychiatrists. Close teamwork with nursing and MDT colleagues is a specific feature of the role; there is the opportunity to work jointly with paediatricians, paediatric nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists, child safeguarding social-workers and nurses and play specialists / activity coordinators to deliver effective care and treatment for children and young people.
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 complete discharge summaries. Your work will be supported by the child and adolescent psychiatry STs and consultants.
All applicants must be eligible for full GMC registration. Previous experience in CAMHS, paediatrics or general adult psychiatry is essential for this post. Ideally, the successful candidate should also have MRCPsych or equivalent, section 12 approval and “training the trainers” educational training or equivalent

Please refer the Job description for details