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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-MED0013ARD
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Brookside Unit, 107a Barley Lane, Goodmayes.
Town
Ilford
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Children and Adolescent 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, Essex, Kent and Medway. 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 three 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

Post and Specialty:

Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young person’s Home Treatment Team.

This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.

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

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit and home treatment team. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. You will work clinically with young people and their families, and work closely with community CAMHS colleagues in the care of young persons within the service, particularly from the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Havering. The post holder will also be expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments of CAMHS cases in A&E and the Section 136 suite as required. 

 

Working for our organisation

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

 

We have an excellent reputation for research and quality development, this encouraged innovation, better ways of working and improved delivery of care. Joining us will offer you access to training opportunities, Continuing Professional Development, peer support groups, and a robust appraisal system. We can also offer professional mentoring and leadership training to suit your career stage and encourage your development.

 

NELFT Benefits:

·       Relocation expenses

·       Career Development and training

·       Just & Compassionate Culture

·       Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

·       Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

·       Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

·       Employee Assistance Programme

·       Health & Wellness initiatives

·   11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

·       Retail Discounts

·       Flexible working and agile working

·       Cycle to work scheme

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

General Duties

  • To organise and prioritise your own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
  • To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and
  • adhere to them.
  • To ensure effective risk management at clinical and team level.

 Clinical skills

  • To assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, 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
  • Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT •
  • Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
  • • Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
  • • Working with interpreters and translators

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
  • • An understanding of leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent clinical skills
  • Excellent communication skills both verbally and written

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 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

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

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

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services. Please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/why-join-us or www.nelft.nhs.uk

Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.

Twitter: @NELFT / NELFTCareers

LinkedIn: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust | LinkedIn

Facebook: NELFT | London | Facebook

 For further details / informal visits contact:  

Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass       

[email protected]

Mobile: 07932 639278  

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