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Job summary

Main area
Mental health
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED230-26
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harlow CAMHS Team (West Essex) & Saffron Walden
Town
Harlow, Essex
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/05/2026 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

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.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

JOB TITLE:     Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist –Harlow (West Essex) SET CAMHS Team

 

CONTRACT:  10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

                               Substantive

Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

 

BASE:             Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG

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 Harlow (West Essex) Team at Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG.

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

On-call 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 Harlow and West 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 Mariam Cherian) and will share supervision responsibilities for any future trainees based within the team.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services.

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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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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