Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Ilford seeks a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. This role demands strong clinical skills in mental health assessments and the ability to support a multidisciplinary team. The organization emphasizes staff development, offers robust training opportunities, and promotes a culture of compassion and inclusion. Join us to make a difference in patients' lives while developing your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Relocation expenses

Career Development and training

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible working options

Health & Wellness initiatives

Qualifications

• Mastery in managing a wide range of mental disorders.
• Experience with diverse cultural patient backgrounds.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Organize and prioritize workload effectively.
• Assess and develop care plans for complex patient needs.
• Supervise and provide training to junior doctors.
• Engage in continuous professional development.

Skills

Organizational skills

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Knowledge of mental health disorders

Education

Inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry

Approved Clinician status

Tools

Electronic case record system

Job description

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12.08.2025

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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

Post and Specialty:

Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young person’s Home Treatment Team.

This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.

The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

●We are kind

●We are respectful

●We work with our communities

Main duties of the job

General Duties

• To organise and prioritise your own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and
• adhere to them.

To ensure effective risk management at clinical and team level

Clinical skills

• To assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Training & Supervision:

• To act as clinical supervisor to the doctors working on the unit, providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
• To undertake a regular appraisal and develop a personal development plan.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training across the team including opportunities for professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Education:

• To provide in-service training and teaching to Medical Students, Trainee Doctors, Resident Doctors, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.

Administration:

• To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and record clinical activity accurately, comprehensively and promptly.
• The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.

Management:

• You will work in partnership with the team manager and other senior colleagues to ensure the multidisciplinary team deliver good quality and safe patient care through clinical governance.
• To act as line manager to all medics in the team.

Working for our organisation

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people. We are committed to delivering thebest careto the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

We have an excellent reputation for research and quality development, this encouraged innovation, better ways of working and improved delivery of care. Joining us will offer you access to training opportunities, Continuing Professional Development, peer support groups, and a robust appraisal system. We can also offer professional mentoring and leadership training to suit your career stage and encourage your development.

·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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership:

• The post holder is encouraged to develop services, participating in business planning and clinical leadership within the Unit and wider directorate.
• Demonstrate leadership skills to deliver effective team working and the maintenance of internal and wider relationships throughout the Trust and its partners.
• Promote integrated health working.
• To facilitate a positive and supportive team culture.
• To participate in the Trustwide Mental Health clinical strategy to improve clinical care.
• To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice.
• development, through literature and peer reviews.
• Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
• Advocate and lead on coproduction in the development of services.

Communication:

• To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.

To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working

Person specification

Qualifications

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT •
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.

Experience

• • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
• • Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
• • Working with interpreters and translators

Knowledge

• • Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
• • An understanding of leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.

Clinical Skills

• Excellent clinical skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written

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.