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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

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 and Kent.

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.

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; West Wing; CEME Centre; Marsh Way; Rainham; Essex; RM13 8GQ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 395-MED0015ARD Vacancy ID: 7373836

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Accepting applications until: 21-Sep-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 21-Sep-2025 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Brookside Unit , Goodmayes.
Cyfeiriad: 107a Barley Lane
Tref: Ilford
Cod post: IG3 8XQ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Oriau: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Salary

Cyflog: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: mental Health

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

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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.

Training & Supervision:

To act as clinical supervisor to the doctors working on the unit, providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
To undertake a regular appraisal and develop a personal development plan.
To support new staff and their integration within the team.
To support training across the team including opportunities for professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Education:

To provide in-service training and teaching to Medical Students, Trainee Doctors, Resident Doctors, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.

Administration:

To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and record clinical activity accurately, comprehensively and promptly.
The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.

Management:

You will work in partnership with the team manager and other senior colleagues to ensure the multidisciplinary team deliver good quality and safe patient care through clinical governance.
To act as line manager to all medics in the team.

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Leadership:

The post holder is encouraged to develop services, participating in business planning and clinical leadership within the Unit and wider directorate.
Demonstrate leadership skills to deliver effective team working and the maintenance of internal and wider relationships throughout the Trust and its partners.
Promote integrated health working.
To facilitate a positive and supportive team culture.
To participate in the Trustwide Mental Health clinical strategy to improve clinical care.
To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice.
development, through literature and peer reviews.
Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
Advocate and lead on coproduction in the development of services.

Communication:

To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.

To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

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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

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• 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

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• 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

Meini prawf hanfodol

Excellent clinical skills
Excellent communication skills both verbally and written

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Enw

Sarah Dracass

Teitl y swydd

Medical Director

Cyfeiriad ebost

[email protected]

Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais

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