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Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist West Essex

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Harlow

Salary

£113,565 – £150,569

Posted

4 days ago

About the role

JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Harlow (West Essex) SET CAMHS Team

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive Post

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

BASE: Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG

Post and Specialty:

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

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).

The post is currently filled by a locum doctor due. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

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.

We are kind We are respectful We work with our communities

Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist West Essex

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

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This post is for an CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the SET CAMHS Harlow (West Essex) Team at Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG.

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.

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

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
Postgraduate qualification
An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.
Understanding of change management