CRISIS & THERAPEUTIC HOME TREATMENT TEAM CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (NHS Medical & Dental: C[...]

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking community and mental health Trust as a Consultant Psychiatrist, where you will provide vital care to children and young people. This innovative position offers the chance to work within a supportive team, shaping the future of mental health services in Essex. With a commitment to equality and diversity, NELFT provides a nurturing environment for professional growth and development. Enjoy a range of employee benefits, including flexible working arrangements and comprehensive health initiatives. Make a meaningful impact in the lives of those you serve while advancing your career in a dynamic setting.

Benefits

Flexible Working Opportunities

Health & Wellness Initiatives

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development and Training

Relocation Expenses

Vivup Employee Benefits Platform

Financial Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a license to practice is mandatory.
• CCT or equivalent qualifications are required.
• Knowledge of current mental health care developments is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical support and guidance to multidisciplinary teams.
• Work directly with young people and families in mental health care.
• Participate in the on-call rota and support team members.

Skills

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care

Team Collaboration

Innovative Problem Solving

Knowledge of Mental Health Developments

Education

Full GMC Registration

CCT or Equivalent

Section 12 Approval

Inclusion in Specialist Register

Job description

CRISIS & THERAPEUTIC HOME TREATMENT TEAM CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

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-MED137-25

Site Stapleford House Town Chelmsford, Essex Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/05/2025 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

CRISIS & THERAPEUTIC HOME TREATMENT TEAM CAMHS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

(CHELMSFORD, CM2 0QX)

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

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Frequency 1:7; Category B - 2% on call supplement

Location

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 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 to a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Southend, Essex, and Thurrock (SET) CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment Team (CTHT), based at Stapleford House, 103 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX.

This is a new, substantive, full-time post – 10 PAs with 7.5 DCC and 2.5 SPA. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit as soon as possible.

You will join a full-time Specialty Doctor 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 children and young people with mental health needs, across Southend, Essex, and Thurrock (SET)

· 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 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B 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 a Specialty Doctor in the service.

· 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.

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.