Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive

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

BASE: 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.

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 successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Harlow and West Essex. The service is provided by one team with one management structure, but due to the size of the area covered it is spread across two main bases.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the teams, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside another CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist in the team (Dr Mariam Cherian) and will share supervision responsibilities for any future trainees based within the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT

Experience

Essential

• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Alymer House

Kitson Way, Kitson Way

Harlow Essex

UK

CM20 1DG

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)