Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum Pro rota |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2026 |
| Location: | Essex, IG11 7LZ |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7855537/395-MED267-26 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist
CONTRACT: 8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ
This 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 post is for 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
This is part of a well‑established full‑time post, currently partly covered by another consultant working less than full time. Significant transformation has already taken place within Barking and Dagenham Community CAMHS, with further developments ongoing. This post is intended to complement the current less than full‑time consultant.
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.
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 three other (2.6 WTE) 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.
There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services
1.2Mainresponsibilities:
· 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 Friday 20 Mar 2026