Specialty Doctor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in London seeks a Specialty Doctor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry to join a supportive team focused on mental health care for children. The position involves assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must have GMC registration and at least four years of postgraduate experience. The trust promotes equality, professional development, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Proactive health and wellbeing support

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Improvement projects.
• Mastery in a broad range of mental disorders in children.
• Understanding and commitment to Trust values.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment to children and families.
• Participate actively as a core member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide specialist clinical input into assessment and treatment planning.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Experience with ADHD

Team collaboration

Education

GMC full registration and license to practice

4 years postgraduate experience

Job description

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Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

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

North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Waltham Forest

Specialty Doctor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

This Specialty Doctor post is an exciting and enriching role in which you will become part of a thriving and well supported Waltham Forest CAMHS service providing mental health care to children and families in Waltham Forest.

Your work would be varied including clinical care across the neurodevelopmental, emotional and behavioural pathways with excellent supervision and support.

Main duties of the job

You will participate actively as a core member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working collaboratively with colleagues including psychologists, nurses, therapists, and administrative staff.

You will provide specialist clinical input into the assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and treatment planning for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.

Contribute to the management and care planning of young people with ADHD and emotional difficulties.

Provide psychiatric follow up care and medication reviews, including titration and monitoring of ADHD medications in accordance with NICE and local guidelines.

Act as the duty prescriber on the rota, offering clinical advice, prescriptions, and urgent assessments as needed.

Working for our organisation

NELFT provides mental health and community services to over million people across northeast London, Essex, and Kent. Our aim is to deliver the best care by the best people.

At NELFT and Waltham Forest CAMHS we strive towards a culture that is both just and compassionate for those we care for and for our colleagues. We firmly believe that respecting and valuing diversity, and engaging our workforce and our patients, improves patient experience and outcomes.

We will support you to have a rewarding and fulfilling career.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment to children and families working within an mdt to provide high quality care and treatment.

Please see the job description attached to this advert.

Person specification

professional

• GMC full registration and license to practise

professional

• 4 years postgraduate experience in specialty
• Experience in Quality Improvement projects

professional

• mastery in broad range of mental disorders in children

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• Understanding and commitment to Trust values
• Section 12 Approval

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.