Community Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (West)

National health service; Barking; Vor Ort; GBP 114.000 - 151.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the on‑call rota for out‑of‑hours and weekends across Mental Health Services. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, providing leadership and high‑quality care to Adults and Older Adults with complex mental health needs.

The role requires current GMC registration, a postgraduate psychiatry qualification, and substantial postgraduate training.

Qualifikationen

• GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Postgraduate qualification in psychiatry.
• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training or equivalent.
• Experience with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and with interpreters.
• Section 12 approval desirable or eligibility.

Aufgaben

• Organise and prioritise own and team workload in day‑to‑day activity.
• Deputise in the team manager's absence and delegate to medical staff.
• Adhere to Trust protocols and keep accurate audit records.
• Ensure effective risk management and update the risk register.
• Act as an autonomous, registered practitioner within GMC guidelines.
• Maintain full GMC registration and engage in continuous professional development.
• Deliver high-quality clinical service to adults and older adults.
• Assess and develop care plans for complex cases across chronic, acute and palliative care.
• Initiate referrals to other specialists as needed.
• Provide patients and relatives with information to support informed choices.
• Ensure practice is supported by evidence, research and peer review.

Kenntnisse

GMC registration

Postgraduate psychiatry

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Cultural competence

Ausbildung

Postgraduate qualification in psychiatry

GMC licence to practice

Jobbeschreibung

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Adults and Older Adults presenting with mental health problems. This is currently a 1:50 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The trust also has a daytime (9am - 5pm) Section 136 rota, with an approximate frequency of one day every three months.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

About us

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.

Details

• Date posted 14 October 2026
• Pay scheme Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade Consultant
• Salary 113,565 to 150,569 a year
• Contract Permanent
• Working pattern Full-time

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others' workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager's absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust's risk register.
• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able 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

Essential

• Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• A postgraduate qualification in psychiatry.
• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders.
• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
• Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
• Working with interpreters and Form Interview Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
• Experience in general medicine.

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 Barking Community Hospital, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX, United Kingdom

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