Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist – Stage Ward | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rota |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2026 |
| Location: | Ilford, Essex, IG3 8XJ |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7852752/395-MED262-26 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist –
Stage Ward
CONTRACT: 8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)
Substantive or Fixed Term (as preferred)
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Cook Ward, Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; IG3 8XJ
The job description is pending royal college approval.
Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for functional and dementia care.
This is a less than fulltime position thathas been available for some time and is covered by a locum. It is an 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.0 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The expectation of the post holder is 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 and we work with our communities.
This less than full-time post is for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position on an Older Adult Acute Ward for men (Stage Ward) with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary inpatient team.
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on-call covers Adult and Older Adult services. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The Trust also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota with an approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months, with all Section 12 approved doctors expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.
The post holder will be a Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist with Approved Clinician (AC) certification committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working on the unit. You will work as the Consultant for a multidisciplinary team including direct input to clinical cases. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with older adult men and their families and liaise as appropriate with community older adult consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop the links with our acute Trust Emergency Departments, inpatient and community geriatric services and NELFT community mental health services for older people to continually improve our services.
We are currently piloting innovative ways of working with our clinical skill mix to support the best care to patients; we have a number of Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians in training and there is an expectation that when qualified they too will hold clinical responsibility for a caseload from the inpatient cohort. The successful candidate to this post would have an important role in shaping and supporting this pilot.The proposal is for the MPAC Consultant Psychologist associated with two Elderly Wards will be the Responsible Clinician for a case load across both wards. They will work closely with the consultant psychiatrists to provide clinical leadership and MDT working, and they will also provide some continuity of care into the community to support better pathway working and reduce readmissions and length of stay for more complex patients.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Mar 2026