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Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist - ED

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Chelmsford

Salary

£113,565 – £150,569

Posted

3 weeks ago

About the role

JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Eating Disorder SET CAMHS Team

CONTRACT: 10 (+1) Programmed Activities (11 PAs)

Substantive

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

BASE: Widford Hall, Tattersall Way, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 STD

Post and Specialty:

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant retiring.

This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). An additional PA (11th PA) under a fixed-term contract is available as an optional and will be subjected to annual review through job planning and can be used flexibly to carry out extra work, audit, research, or quality improvement projects in line with service priorities.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trusts Values in their day-to-day work.

Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist - ED

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

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On-call responsibilities:

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT).

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Person specification

Essential

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

Desirable

Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry
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Postgraduate qualification
An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.
Understanding of change management