COMMUNITY ADULT SPECIALTY DOCTOR MHWT (WANSTEAD, E11 2DH)

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in London is seeking a COMMUNITY ADULT SPECIALTY DOCTOR to join their team in mental health services. This role requires strong management skills in adult mental health care and a commitment to providing high-quality support to patients. The position offers extensive training opportunities and a supportive environment. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with flexible working arrangements available.

Benefits

Career Development and training

Health & Wellness initiatives

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience managing a broad range of mental disorders in adults.
• Demonstrate values aligned with NELFT.
• Innovative and motivated in adult mental health care.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care.
• Provide senior medical support to the team.
• Assess and manage patients with mental health needs.

Skills

Mastery in management of mental disorders

Understanding of adult mental health care developments

Team player

Education

Full GMC Registration

Section 12 Certification

At least 4 years of postgraduate training

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COMMUNITY ADULT SPECIALTY DOCTOR MHWT (WANSTEAD, E11 2DH), London

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Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

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 SPECIALTY DOCTOR

MHWT

(WANSTEAD,E11 2DH)

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

Contract

Fixed-Term Contact: 12 months

Hours

None

Location

Qualifications needed:

·Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

·Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

·Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults

·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

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 mental health care,

·Essential understanding of current developments in adult 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 thebest careto 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 Community Adult Psychiatry Specialty Doctor position in the Redbridge Mental Wellness Teams, based at Mellmead House, 4 Orchard Close, Rodney Road, Wanstead, Redbridge, E11 2DH.

This is a new, fixed-term contract post for 12 months, full-time post. We wish to recruit to it as soon as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

·Workaspartofmultidisciplinaryteamsprovidingcaretoadultpeople with mental health needs, across Redbridge.

·Provideseniormedicalsupporttotheteam,anddirectinputonclinicalcases.

·Provideguidanceandsupervisiontotheteam.

·Work directly with adult people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external adult mental health providers, and acute hospitals.

·Developlinksalreadyestablishedwiththelocalacutetrusts’A&Edepartments and inpatient wards.

·Beresponsibleforpatientsallocatedtothemandwillassess,manage,plan,and deliver care.

·Supportyourpeersandtheteammanagerandbeaneffectiveteammember whilst working on their own initiative.

·Supervisejuniorcolleaguesandliaisewithotherhealthandsocialprofessionals and agencies.

Person specification

GMC

• • Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Section 12

• • Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

Knowledge

• • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults

Experience

• • 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

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.