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Job summary

Main area
mental health
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 8 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED261-26
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cook Ward, Goodmayes Hospital
Town
Ilford
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rota
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/03/2026 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist Cook Ward

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 Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist –

                          Cook Ward

CONTRACT:     8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)

    Substantive or Fixed Term (as preferred)

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

BASE:              Cook Ward, Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane;                                  Ilford; IG3 8XJ

The job description is pending royal college approval.

Main duties of the job

Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for functional and dementia care.

This is a less than fulltime position that has been available for some time and is covered by a locum. It is an 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.0 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). 

The expectation of the post holder is 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 and we work with our communities

Working for our organisation

This less than full-time post is for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position on an Older Adult Acute Ward for women (Cook Ward) with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary inpatient team. 

On-call responsibilities:

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on-call covers Adult and Older Adult services. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The Trust also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota with an approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months, with all Section 12 approved doctors expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist with Approved Clinician (AC) certification committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working on the unit. You will work as the Consultant for a multidisciplinary team including direct input to clinical cases. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with older adult female patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with community older adult consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop the links with our acute Trust Emergency Departments, inpatient and community geriatric services and NELFT community mental health services for older people to continually improve our services.

 We are currently piloting innovative ways of working with our clinical skill mix to support the best care to patients; we have a number of Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians and there is an expectation that they too will hold clinical responsibility for a caseload from the inpatient cohort. The successful candidate to this post would have an important role in shaping and supporting this pilot. The proposal is for the MPAC Consultant Psychologist associated with two Older Adult Wards will be the Responsible Clinician for a case load across both wards. They will work closely with the consultant psychiatrists to provide clinical leadership and MDT working, and they will also provide some continuity of care into the community to support better pathway working and reduce readmissions and length of stay for more complex patients.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register for Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT). Approved Clinician status/ eligibility

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Comprehensive understanding of biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders.
  • A range of evidence-based treatment approaches.
  • Awareness of NHS and NELFT strategic priorities and clinical governance.

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent diagnostic and therapeutic skills for adult mental health
  • Ability to manage time and workload effectively.

Leadership & Organisation

Essential criteria
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build relationships with partner teams/organisations
  • Ability to manage time and workload effectively.

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience training junior doctors and other professionals

Academic Skills

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to engage in research and quality improvement methodology

Personal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Enthusiasm, integrity, flexibility, resilience under pressure.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop 10 Employer 2023

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Director
Job title
Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Who to contact for informal inquiries:

Deputy Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sarah Dracass              [email protected]

 Associate Medical Director: Dr Yasmin Sultana               [email protected]

Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown               [email protected]

 Medical Staffing:                                                                   [email protected]

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