Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	24 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 August 2025
Location:	Ilford, IG3 8XQ
Company:	North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7373836/395-MED0015ARD

Summary

Post and Specialty:

Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young person’s Home Treatment Team.

This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

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.

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





General Duties
• To organise and prioritise your own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and
• adhere to them.

To ensure effective risk management at clinical and team level

Clinical skills
• To assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Training & Supervision:
• To act as clinical supervisor to the doctors working on the unit, providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
• To undertake a regular appraisal and develop a personal development plan.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training across the team including opportunities for professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Education:
• To provide in-service training and teaching to Medical Students, Trainee Doctors, Resident Doctors, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.

Administration:
• To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and record clinical activity accurately, comprehensively and promptly.
• The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.

Management:
• You will work in partnership with the team manager and other senior colleagues to ensure the multidisciplinary team deliver good quality and safe patient care through clinical governance.
• To act as line manager to all medics in the team.







NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people. We are committed to delivering the best care to 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.



NELFT Benefits:

· 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 Networksincluding 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



Leadership:
• The post holder is encouraged to develop services, participating in business planning and clinical leadership within the Unit and wider directorate.
• 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 positive 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.
• development, through literature and peer reviews.
• Support the AMD 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


This advert closes on Sunday 24 Aug 2025