General Adult Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist – Turner Ward

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Ilford is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist for the adult male acute Mental Health Ward at Goodmayes Hospital. The role involves providing direct clinical care, leading a multidisciplinary team, and shaping service development. Ideal candidates will have expertise in managing mental disorders, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to relational care. NELFT offers a supportive environment with a focus on health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Relocation expenses

Career Development and training

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellness initiatives

Flexible working

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience managing a broad range of mental disorders in older adults.
• Experience working with interpreters and translators.
• Extensive knowledge of mental health disorder determinants and treatments.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to patients and lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Establish relational care culture and collaborate with various teams.
• Participate in strategic service development and business planning.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical skills

Communication skills

Cultural competency

Education

Eligibility for Specialist Register for Psychiatry

Approved Clinician status

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12.08.2025

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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

Post and Specialty:

Adult Consultant Psychiatrist on an adult male acute Mental Health Ward (Turner Ward), based at Goodmayes Hospital, Ilford.

This 10 PA position has been redefined following a review of our inpatient provision and reorganisation of our inpatient unit. It is currently filled by a locum consultant. It offers 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs), however, there are options to add additional PAs as a special clinical interest or further SPAs to the job plan increasing the total to 12 PAs.

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.

Aim of the role:

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

The post holder will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. You will work clinically with patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with crisis and home treatment teams, community mental health colleagues; and our partners in care such as primary care, social and acute health care colleagues

The post holder will have clinical responsibility for the care of men admitted to Turner Ward primarily from the borough of Havering. There may occasionally be patients from the other boroughs also admitted to Turner ward, and the consultant psychiatrist may be required to manage or contribute to the care of these patients care in addition.

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 the wider directorate or pathways of care.
• 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 safe 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.
• Support the AMD and senior leadership team 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.