CAMHS Workforce NHSScotland Quarter Ending 31 March 2020

This release by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides a quarterly update, as at 31 March 2020, on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) workforce staff in post and staff in training.

Figures are presented as headcount (actual numbers of staff) and whole time equivalent (WTE), which adjusts the figures to take account of part time working.

At 31 March 2020:

• There were 1,040.3 WTE staff in post within NHSScotland CAMHS, an increase of 386.6 WTE (+59.1%) since 2006, 46.8 WTE (+4.7%) since 31 March 2016, and a decrease of 9.9 WTE (-0.9%) since 31 March 2019. Of the total staff in post, 5.5% of staff were on maternity leave and 1.6% were on long term sick leave.
• There were 697.1 WTE (67.0%) of CAMHS staff working in whole-time posts and 343.2 WTE (33.0%) working in part-time posts, an increase of 43.5 WTE (+6.7%) in whole-time posts and 139.3 WTE (+68.3%) in part-time posts since March 2011. Within the Nursing professional group, 18.8% (83.2 WTE) of staff worked part-time, compared to 48.6% (134.0 WTE) in Psychology and 54.1% (51.7 WTE) in the Medical professional groups.
• Of the total NHSScotland CAMHS workforce, 876.9 WTE (84.3%) were female and 161.4 WTE (15.5%) were male. The WTE of male staff decreased by 11.2 WTE (-6.6%) and the WTE of female staff increased by 192.2 WTE (+28.1%) since March 2011.
• The majority of staff working in the Psychology professional group were in AfC Band 8a (105.2WTE, 38.2%), while the majority of the staff working in Nursing professional group were in AfC Band 6 (216.6WTE, 48.9%) and the majority of staff working in the Medical Professional group were Consultants (71.5WTE, 74.8%). This is an increase of 4.5% in AfC Band 8a for the Psychology professional group compared to the previous year’s census, an increase of 4.1% in AfC Band 6 for the Nursing professional group and a reduction of 0.4% for Consultant medical grade in the Medical professional grou