Job summary
- Main area
- mental health
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 395-MED266-26
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 79 Axe Street
- Town
- Essex
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Child and Adolescent 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.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ
This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Barking and Dagenham CAMHS Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ.
This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.
The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
● We are kind
● We are respectful
● We work with our communities
Main duties of the job
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation and covered by Locum doctors. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Barking and Dagenham Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
The postholder will be part of the CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems.
The on-call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently 1:12 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement. Once this post is filled, the rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year.
The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Barking and Dagenham.
Working for our organisation
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, 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 two other full-time CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists 0.4wte Academic Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrists, two substantive Specialty Doctors, and 1 Core Trainee. The post holder will work closely with the community Paediatric Team to support a fully integrated all age children’s service. You will share supervision for junior members of the team with your consultant colleague.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
· o deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
· To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
· To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
· To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCPsych or equivalent. Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
- Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
- An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
- An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical skills
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written.
- Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches.
- Ability to provide clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team.
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
- Manjari Tanwar
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Medical Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Associate Medical Director: [email protected]
Integrated Care director: [email protected]
Deputy Chief Medical officer for BCYP: [email protected]
Deputy Chief Medical officer for Mental Health: [email protected]
Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown [email protected]
Medical Staffing: [email protected]
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