Consultant Community Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2026 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0QX |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7862715/395-MED137-26 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist
Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment Team
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Substantive
Flexible working available – including job share, part- time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 OQX
This is a new post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, to provide high quality preventative care, and to reduce the time CAMHS spend in A&Es. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services.
This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). This post is vacant currently and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the 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 post is for an CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Southend, Essex, and Thurrock (SET) CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, based atStapleford House, 103 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX.
This is a new post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, to provide high quality preventative care, and to reduce the time CAMHS spend in A&Es. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services.
This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). This post is vacant currently and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT).
This advert closes on Sunday 10 May 2026