General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist – Redbridge Home Treatment Team | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rota |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | Ilford, IG3 8XJ |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7767941/395-MED257-25 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: General AdultConsultant Psychiatrist – Redbridge HomeTreatment Team
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Substantive contract
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Tantallon House, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG3 8XJ
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder participate in the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Adult Mental Health Services in NELFT. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. There is also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota (approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months), including all Section 12 approved doctors in NELFT. The on-call Sec 136 doctor is expected to take a lead on Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.
The job description is pending royal college approval.
This post is for a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist in Redbridge Home Treatment Team (BD HTT), based atTantallon House, Goodmayes Hospital and working into the Redbridge borough of London to provide home treatment for mental health patients in crisis.
The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for mental health patients experiencing a crisis in their mental health.
In the course of your work, you will help shape service development, support staff and champion the Trust values ofkindness, respect, and partnership with communities.
This is one of two full-time posts for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established Home Treatment service with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary team.
This is a full-time substantive post, and we would consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. It is a post with 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). There are opportunities to add additional PAs for a special interest e.g. research, medical education, leadership roles etc.
The post holder will be committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team.You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the multidisciplinary team, work directly with adult patients in mental health crisis in the community, and their families, and liaise as appropriate with inpatient and community consultant psychiatrists and other health and social care partners. You will develop links across the whole mental health pathway including primary care networks in Redbridge to continually improve our services.
Redbridge Home Treatment Team (R HTT) is one of four general adult HTTs in NELFT. The aim of the service is to provide a community based alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing a mental health crisis, and to facilitate the early discharge of psychiatric inpatients. The service provides a rapid response, intensive home-based mental health service to working age adults and together with our Integrated Crisis Assessment Hub provides a Mental Health crisis function over 24 hours, 7 days per week.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Feb 2026