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Job summary

Main area
General Adult Psychiatry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract
Perm
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0278
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chase Farm Hospital - Enfield Community Rehabilitation Team
Town
Enfield
Salary
£61,542 - £99,216 Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per year
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialty Doctor - General Adult Psychiatry

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Job overview

This is a Full Time (1 WTE) post for a Specialty Doctor to work in the Enfield Community Rehabilitation Team in the London Borough of Enfield. ECRT is a multidisciplinary team delivering a community rehabilitation service to patients with severe and enduring mental illness who are resident in 24-hour supported or residential accommodation. At present, there are approximately 98 of such homes in Enfield. The team works closely with Somerset Villa Rehabilitation Unit based at Chase Farm Hospital site, and the stepdown high and medium dependency unit run by Penrose, a social enterprise. 

Main duties of the job

•    Face to face clinical assessments for patients under the care of ECRT, usually as home visits.

•    Medical input in weekly MDT meetings involving care planning/risk management.

•    To take responsibility for the delivery of key performance indicators (KPIs).

•    A willingness to be flexible in altering the timetable according to service developments.

•    Supporting the RCs in writing Mental Health Tribunal reports and reports to other agencies as they arise.

•    Attending Mental Health Tribunal/Associate Hospital Managers hearings as needed.

•    To ensure appropriate clinical documentation.

•    To work collaboratively with colleagues in other service lines and with GPs.

•    To collaborate with GPs, hospital doctors and primary care clinicians re the physical healthcare.

•    To engage with clinical governance meeting with staff and managers.

•    The rehab team manager, in collaboration with the consultants in the team, manage patients through a case load management system.  

•    There are no on-call or section 12 rota commitments.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

 We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
 We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Plesase see attached JD and Person Spec for the Specialty Doctor - General Adult Psychiatry  role at Chase Farm Hospital

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC Registration
  • Understanding of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
  • Section 12 approval

Personal Circumstance

Essential criteria
  • Drivers License (Valid)
Desirable criteria
  • Access to a vehicle

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of 4 years postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a speciality training programme in psychiatry or as a fixed term speciality trainee in psychiatry; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
  • Risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
  • Full MRCPsych
  • More than two years of experience working at ST4 level or above.

Training Expected

Essential criteria
  • Good and up to date understanding of principles and practice of psychopharmacology and psychological treatments in psychiatry.
Desirable criteria
  • Further training in any psychiatric specialty
  • Experience of clinical audit
  • Experience of quality improvement project

Personal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written
  • Formulate effective working relationships
  • Function autonomously as well as being a team player. Commitment of working within a multidisciplinary team.
  • Assessing, formulating and prioritizing patient needs
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a multi-cultural society
  • Skills in a range of therapeutic and psycho-social treatment options

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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
Dr Antonio Albanese
Job title
Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02083752999
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