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Job summary

Main area
Psychiatry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED258-26
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wood Street Health Centre
Town
Walthamstow
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/03/2026 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Waltham Forest CAMHS

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 Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Waltham Forest CAMHS.

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, Walthamstow E17 3LA

This post is for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist working across the Behavioural and ADHD pathway within the Waltham Forest CAMHS Community Team, based at Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 3LA.

The job description is pending Royal College Approval.

Main duties of the job

This is a replacement post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with a ratio of 7.5 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) to 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPA).

On-call responsibilities
The postholder will participate in the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services within NELFT. The on-call covers service delivery for children and adolescents presenting with mental health problems.

The rota is covered by local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants and is currently 1:12, with a 3% Category A salary supplement (subject to change as the rota expands).

Working for our organisation

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

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.

To 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.

Clinical Skills:

To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).

Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.

To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.

To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.

To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.

To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

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
  • Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions in child & adolescent psychiatry
  • 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 and child & adolescent psychiatry
  • 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.

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience in managing patients and families from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators

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
Bill Travers
Job title
Associate Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Interim Associate Medical Director: [email protected]
Integrated Care director: [email protected]
Deputy Chief Medical officer for BCYP: [email protected]

Deputy Chief Medical officer for Psychiatry: [email protected]
Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown [email protected]
Medical Staffing: [email protected]

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