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Join a leading mental health Trust as a Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist in Maidstone. You'll be part of a supportive team focused on delivering exceptional child and adolescent mental health care. The role offers opportunities for professional development, flexible working arrangements, and a commitment to equality and diversity. With a strong emphasis on staff wellbeing, NELFT is dedicated to providing the best care for its patients while fostering a compassionate work culture.
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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
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17.05.2025
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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
Job overview
COMMUNITY CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST
(MAIDSTONE, ME14 1PA)
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
Contract
Substantive
Hours
Frequency 1:14 (pro-rata); Category A - 3% on call supplement
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
To be successful in your application, you will need:
·To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,
·To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health care,
·Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
·To be a team player
·Relocation expenses
·Career Development and training
·Just & Compassionate Culture
·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
·Flexible working and agile working
·Cycle to work scheme
Working for our organisation
Why NELFT?
NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 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 to a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Medway CAMHS Community Team, based at Unit 1 The Courtyard, Campus Way, Gillingham Business Park, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 0NZ. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this position as soon as possible.
You will join another substantive Consultant within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.
Why Kent?
Kent is a county in Southeast England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the northwest, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the southwest. Kent is famously known as the Garden of England, renowned for its beauty.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be expected to:
·Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Medway.
·Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team
·Work directly with young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers and acute hospitals
·Participate in the on-call rota frequency is currently 1:14, with a 3% of basic salary, Category A on-call supplement.
·Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative
·Work alongside another CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist.
·Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.
Person specification
GMC
Qualifications
Knowledge
Knowledge
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:
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.