Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	21 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 December 2025
Location:	Barking, Essex, IG11 7LZ
Company:	North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7634541/395-MED249-25

Summary

JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Flexible working available



BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ



KEY RELATIONSHIPS:



CAMHS Team including Mental Health school Team (MHST), Targeted children’s service including school nursing, health visiting, paediatrics, therapies & children looked after service, administration Staff, Primary Care Providers, Educational Services, Local authority colleagues including social care.



his post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Barking and Dagenham CAMHS Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ.

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

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation and covered by Locum doctors. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Barking and Dagenham Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.

The postholder will be part of the CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems.

The on-call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently 1:12 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement. Once this post is filled, the rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year.

The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Barking and Dagenham.



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.



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 two other full-time CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists 0.4wte Academic Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrists, two substantive Specialty Doctors, and 1 Core Trainee. The post holder will work closely with the community Paediatric Team to support a fully integrated all age children’s service. You will share supervision for junior members of the team with your consultant colleague.

· To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.

· To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.

· To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.

· To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

·To 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.

Clinical Skills

· To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

· The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).

· Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.

· To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.

· To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, 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.


This advert closes on Friday 5 Dec 2025