Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 395-MED259-26
- 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
Employer heading
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: 7 Programmed Activities (7 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, Walthamstow E17 3LA
This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Waltham Forest CAMHS Community Team, based at Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, E17 3LA.
This is a replacement part-time post of 7 Programmed Activities (PAs) with a ratio of 7.5 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) to2.0 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
The job description is pending Royal College Approval.
Main duties of the job
This is a substantive post of 7 Programmed Activities (PAs). The postholder will provide senior medical leadership within the access and comprehensive pathways, supporting high-quality assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and treatment planning, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
The role involves assessing a broad range of child and adolescent mental health presentations, including comprehensive psychiatric assessment, formulation, and diagnostic work where indicated. The postholder will work within a well-supported multidisciplinary team, with access to a wide range of evidence-based interventions.
The post includes medical treatment planning and, where clinically indicated, prescribing and medication review in line with national and local guidance, with appropriate monitoring and risk management. Within the comprehensive pathway, the postholder will provide senior specialist CAMHS input for children and families requiring enhanced support, including complex presentations and higher levels of risk or need. A key component of the role is collaborative working across the MDT and with partner agencies (including education, social care, acute services, and safeguarding networks) to ensure coordinated, timely, and effective care. Where clinically necessary, and given the evolving organisational structure of the service, the postholder’s role may also contribute to the other clinical pathways.
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 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:
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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.
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The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
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Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
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To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
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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.
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To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
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To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
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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
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
- 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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