Locum Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Ashford)

North East London NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Locum Consultant Psychiatrist for their Ashford CAMHS Community Team. This part-time position offers 8 Programmed Activities and focuses on providing care for children and adolescents with mental health needs. The successful candidate will work alongside experienced professionals, provide guidance, and support clinical cases within a multidisciplinary team. The role requires full GMC registration and relevant experience in child and adolescent mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing clinical care to children and young people with mental health needs.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong leadership skills to guide and supervise team members.

Responsibilities

• Organise and prioritise workload in day-to-day work allocation.
• Deputise in the team manager's absence and delegate work.
• Adhere to Trust protocols and procedures.

Skills

Organisational knowledge

Risk management

Clinical supervision

Education

CCT or equivalent

Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Job description

COMMUNITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

LOCUM CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

(ASHFORD - KENT)

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

Job Details:

Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum (Pro‑rata)

Contract: 6 month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Part‑time – 8 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 5.5:2.5)

On call: No out of hours on call

Location: Lenworth Clinic, 329 Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 0QE

This post is for a Locum CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Ashford CAMHS Community Team, based at Lenworth Clinic, 329 Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 0QE.

Main duties of the job

This is a well‑established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Kent's Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a part‑time post – 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 5.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Ashford.

About us

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with children and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will work alongside a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Surekha Boggaram) and 0.6 wte Specialty Doctor (Dr Vinutha Ramesh) within the service and will provide supervision requirements for the Specialty doctor in the service.

Job responsibilities

• Organise and prioritise own and others' workload in the day‑to‑day allocation of work.
• Deputise when required in the team manager's absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• Have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• Provide accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• Ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust's risk register.

Person Specification

GMC

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent.

Knowledge

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.

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