COMMUNITY CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MEDWAY)

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Medway team in Kent. This role involves providing vital mental health support, collaborating within multidisciplinary teams, and contributing to the overall strategy and care delivery for the CAMHS service. NELFT is committed to staff well-being and professional development, ensuring the highest standards of care are provided in the community. Join a supportive and values-driven team dedicated to making a difference in mental health care.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Flexible Working Arrangements

Health & Wellness Support

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff Psychological Support

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice required.
• CCT or equivalent qualifications necessary.
• Approved Clinician status or eligibility is needed.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people.
• Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team.
• Participate in on-call rota with a frequency of 1:14.

Skills

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care

Team Collaboration

Innovative Thinking

Education

Full GMC Registration

CCT or equivalent

Section 12 Approval

Approved Clinician Status

Inclusion in Specialist Register

Job description

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Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Kent, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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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 CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

(MEDWAY, ME8 0NZ)

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; Category A - 3% on call supplement

Location

Unit 1 The Courtyard, Campus Way, Gillingham Business Park, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 0NZ

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 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 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

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent

Knowledge

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

Knowledge

• 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.