COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE) (NHS Medical & Dental: Con[...]

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community and mental health Trust in the UK is looking for a Community Adult Eating Disorders Consultant Psychiatrist in Maidstone. This full-time position offers an opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high-quality mental health care, with competitive salary and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Career Development and Training

Health & Wellness Initiatives

Flexible Working Options

Employee Assistance Programme

Vivup Employee Benefits Platform

Cycle to Work Scheme

Award Winning Equality and Diversity Initiatives

Qualifications

• Demonstrate alignment with NELFT values.
• Passionate about Adult Eating Disorders.
• Understanding of developments in mental health care.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to adults with eating disorders as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• Direct input on clinical cases and supervision of junior colleagues.
• Commitment to collaborative working with other health professionals.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Teamwork

Clinical Supervision

Education

Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

CCT or equivalent

Section 12 Approval

Approved Clinician status

Inclusion in the Specialist Register

Job description

COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE)

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 395-MED144-25

Site The Courtyard Town Maidstone, Kent Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rota Salary period Yearly Closing 13/08/2025 23:59

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 ADULT EATING DISORDERS

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

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

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 Adult Eating Disorders

· 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 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.

Detailed job description and main 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

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 effortsto 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.

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 [e-mail].

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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 also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.