Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 395-MED225-26
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Oaks Clinic
- Town
- Essex
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist – Basildon & Brentwood SET CAMHS
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Substantive
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Great Oaks Clinic, Great Oaks, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1EH
Main duties of the job
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation.
This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The post is currently filled by a locum doctor due. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
● We are kind
● We are respectful
● We work with our communities
Working for our organisation
This post is for an CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the SET CAMHS Basildon and Brentwood Team at Great Oaks Clinic, Great Oaks, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1EH.
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
This is a replacement, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT).
The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Basildon and Brentwood Essex. The service is provided by one team with one management structure, but due to the size of the area covered it is spread across two main bases.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the teams, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside another CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist in the team (Dr Coleen Lyder) and will share supervision responsibilities for any future trainees based within the team.
Person specification
GMC
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCT or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Viviana Porcari
- Job title
- Associate Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass [email protected]
Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari [email protected]
Medical Staffing: [email protected]
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