Crisis & Therapeutic HTT CAMHS SPECIALTY DOCTOR IN PSYCHIATRY

NHS; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare provider is seeking a CAMHS Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry to join their team in Chelmsford. This role involves providing care to children and young people with mental health needs within a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have a full GMC registration, relevant postgraduate training, and a commitment to collaborative work. This position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible working

Health & Wellness initiatives

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a license to practice required.
• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training in a relevant specialty.
• Experience managing patients from diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to children and young people with mental health needs.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams in the SET area.
• Liaise with families and external mental health providers.

Skills

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care

Team player

Cultural sensitivity

Education

Full GMC Registration

Postgraduate training (4+ years)

Job description

Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment Team CAMHS Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry

The closing date is 28 February 2026

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 five 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.

For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in Essex, by accessing this video link: Working for NELFT in our Essex Medical Directorate

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.

To apply for this role, please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk or www.jobs.nhs.uk and search under job reference number 395-MED250-25.

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
• 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
• Retail Discounts
• Flexible working and agile working
• Cycle to work scheme

About us

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 Psychiatrist Specialty Doctor 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 replacement, substantive, full-time post - 10 PAs with 8 DCC and 2 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 working alongside nurses and therapists in the team with the support of the locality Consultants across 6 different teams, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Job 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 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
• Support your peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative.
• Work alongside a Consultant 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 license to practice

Section 12

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

Clinical

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

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of the biological, psychological and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based management interventions
• Up to date knowledge of recent DH documentation and NICE Guidelines

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust