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HSE Dublin & South East
https://www.hse.ie
Full-Time
30/10/2025
Wexford
HSE Waterford Wexford
29/01/2026, 15:00
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Permanent
Health Service Executive
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist - Mental Health Service, Wexford 37hpw, WXCPCP03.
This is an appointment to the HSE Dublin & South East Region on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 by the Health Service Executive. The initial commitment for this post will be to MHS Wexford for 37 hours per week. This post may be subject to restructuring in the future to facilitate the reorganisation of acute services in line with new clinical models of acute and community services. It is noted that the post must be congruent with the requirements of, and facilitate implementation of national health policy, the HSE’s National Clinical Programmes including commitment to deliver the relevant performance outcomes.
Please see Information Booklet for further details.
This is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist post, Wexford Mental Health Service.
It's purpose is to address the mental health needs of the population of the catchment area who are under 18 years of age and to provide an 'in reach' specialist mental health service for children and adolescents when clinically appropriate who have been admitted to paediatric, medical, surgical wards in Wexford General Hospital.
The appointment of an appropriately trained specialist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry to this post will help address the response time to address referrals and increase the senior clinical decision making capacity available to patients and their families. The successful post-holder will deliver a 'continuity of care' model of service by ensuring that they, in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary Team, follow patients throughout their treatment and care. The appointed consultant will provide clinical leadership regarding case prioritisation.
To provide specialist assessment, diagnostic formulation and treatment of mental illnesses and/or mental disorders in individuals under the age of 18 years in accordance with the National Standardised Operating Procedure for Consultant Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service for subsequent national policies, procedures and /or guidelines.
To provide prompt notification to Executive Clinical Director and the Mental Health Commission of serious untoward incidents in accordance with the relevant regulations.
To provide leadership in implementing appropriate clinical care within a multidisciplinary team informed by evidence based practice.
To provide clinical leadership and medical expertise to the allied health professionals within the Consultant Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service multidisciplinary team.
To deputise and supply cross-cover as appropriate for his/her colleagues in the event of service exigencies in agreement with the Executive Clinical Director and Management.
To prepare and present an appropriate court report as part of the legislative procedure to arrange the involuntary admission of a child to an Approved Centre when clinically appropriate (in accordance with the specifications of Section 25 of the Mental Treatment Act 2001).
The Wexford Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service is a component of HSE Dublin & South East Region Mental Health Services comprising of Integrated Healthcare Areas, Waterford Wexford, and Carlow Kilkenny and South Tipperary. At the last census 2022, 138,985 out of a total population of 549,720 in the South East was younger than 18 years.
Its function is to address the mental health needs of the population who are under 18 years of age (41,640 in the 2022 census) and to provide an 'in reach' specialist mental health service for children and adolescents when clinically appropriate who have been admitted to paediatric, medical and surgical wards in Wexford General Hospital.
The model of care is primarily outpatient based as the service does not have a specialist inpatient Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service unit located within its catchment area. When in-patient care is clinically indicated, Wexford Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service accesses one of the national in-patient Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service units.
The consultant will have their administrative base initially located at Arnold House, Enniscorthy with plans to be subsequently and permanently re-located and based in Gorey.
The appointment is whole-time, permanent and pensionable.
The annual salary will be as set out in the Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023. Medical Consultants Salary Scales from 1st August 2025:
€233,527 €246,150 €259,475 €266,489 €273,501 €280,513
The standard working week applying to the post is: 37 hours per week.
The annual leave associated with the post is: 30 Working Days per annum.
A ranking and or shortlisting exercise may be carried out on the basis of information supplied in your application form. The criteria for ranking and or shortlisting are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and skills, competencies and/or knowledge section of this job specification. Therefore it is very important that you think about your experience in light of those requirements
Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process.
The HSE is an equal opportunities employer.
Dr. Peter Braben
Clinical Director & Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
peter.braben@hse.ie
This vacancy is closed to applications.
