Locum Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Ashford) | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rota |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 January 2026 |
| Location: | Ashford, Kent, TN24 0QE |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7674608/395-MED253-25 |
Summary
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.
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organization. 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) post 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.
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 0.6wte Specialty Doctor (Dr Vinutha Ramesh) within the service and will provide supervision requirements for the Specialty doctor in the service.
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025