COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE)

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in Maidstone is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join their Adult Eating Disorders service. The role requires full GMC registration, and experience with eating disorders is preferred. Responsibilities include working within multidisciplinary teams, providing senior medical support, and supervising junior doctors. This is a substantive full-time position offering a salary of £109,725 to £145,478 annually.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Health & wellness initiatives

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice required.
• CCT or equivalent is essential.
• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.

Responsibilities

• Work with multidisciplinary teams to provide care to patients with eating disorders.
• Provide senior medical support to clinical cases.
• Supervise and support junior doctors in the service.

Skills

Team player

Knowledge of eating disorders

Education

CCT or equivalent

Full GMC registration

Job description

Overview

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE)

The closing date is 19 November 2025

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract

Substantive

Hours

None

Location

The Courtyard, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1PA

Qualifications needed:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• CCT or equivalent
• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Main duties of the job

You will be successful in your application if you:

Demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT's values, be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Adult Eating Disorders, and have an essential understanding of current developments in mental health care. You should be a team player.

Career Development and training

Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives; Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme; Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support; Employee Assistance Programme; Health & Wellness initiatives; 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few; Retail Discounts; Flexible working and agile working; Cycle to work scheme

About us

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

We are currently recruiting for an Adult Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Kent All Age Eating Disorder (AAED) service based at The Courtyard, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1PA.

This is a replacement, substantive, full-time post - 10 PAs with 7.5 PA DCC and 2.5 SPA. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

You will join another full-time substantive Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, 2.8wte CAMHS Consultants, 0.4wte Paediatrician, and 1wte CAMHS Core Trainee within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Job responsibilities

You will be expected to:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to patients with eating disorders across all ages, although more focus on the adult patients
• Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases
• Provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with adults (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external adult mental health providers, and acute hospitals
• Work alongside another Adult Consultant Psychiatrists, 2.8wte CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, 0.4wte Paediatrician, and 1wte Core Trainee within the service, and will share supervision requirements for junior doctors in the service
• Further develop links already established with the local acute trusts A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services
• Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care
• Support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative and supervise junior colleagues
• Commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies

Person Specification

Registration

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent

Section 12

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

Knowledge

• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it

Specialist Register

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

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum pro rota