Specialty Doctor - EB1 South Beds Mental Health Team | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,542 - £99,216 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | Dunstable, LU6 3SD |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7524906/363-MRSSLUT7524906 |
Summary
This is a community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural Mental Health Team (EB1) offering assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team.
EB1 is a cohesive community based multi-disciplinary team within South Bedfordshire CAMHS, which provides assessment and treatment of young people presenting moderate to severe mental health difficulties. This includes young people who present with risk self-harm. The EB1 is composed of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (one full time consultant), Systemic Family Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and Mental Health Nursing. The team model includes joint working between Psychiatry and allocated care-coordinator to provide young people and their families with developmentally informed evidence-based treatments. There is a high level of support within the team and regular supervision with the Consultant Psychiatrist.
As part of the EB1 team, the post-holder will offer generic CAMHS assessments and interventions. The post-holder will contribute to a day time emergency rota covering presentations of young people in crisis or who have deliberately self-harmed at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and providing urgent psychiatric reviews (with support of consultant).
The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Key Relationships:
• Young people and their families
• EBT Consultants and Clinical Team Leads
• EBT Clinical Colleagues
• EBT Administrators
• Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
• Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, Tier 4 inpatient services, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector.
Other SAS Doctors within the trust
• Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
This job description is intended as a guide to the main duties of the post and is not intended to be a prescriptive document. Duties and base of work may change to meet the needs of the service or because of the introduction of new technology. This job description may be reviewed from time to time and changed, after consultation with the postholder.
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This advert closes on Sunday 26 Oct 2025