Specialty Doctor CAMHS Psychiatrist
| Posting date: | 19 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £61,542.00 to £99,216.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61542.00 - £99216.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2026 |
| Location: | Essex Chelmsford, CM2 0QX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9395-26-0266 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Specialty Doctor 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 Post and Specialty: This is a replacement post after the previous post holder has left, to offer 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 substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 8 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 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 1.1 Job Title: Specialty Doctor Community CAMHS Psychiatrist This post is for an CAMHS Psychiatry Specialty Doctor position in the Southend, Essex, and Thurrock (SET) CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, based at Stapleford House, 103 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX. Rationale for post: This is a replacement post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crises and Therapeutic Home Treatment 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. We wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a new post and is full-time - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 8 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). Accountability: The postholder will be professionally and clinically accountable to the Associate Medical Director for Essex (currently Dr Viviana Porcari), and operationally accountable to both the Associate Medical Director and the Director of Children Services Essex & Kent, via the Assistant Director (currently Tina Russell). The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Psychiatrist with Approved Clinician (AC) certification, or eligibility for it. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care. The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies. There are currently no junior doctors to supervise within the EWMS North East Essex team, however this could change in the near future. 1.2 Main responsibilities Main responsibilities: •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. Clinical Skills: • To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols. • The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC). • Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes. • To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients. • To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes. • To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. • To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life. • To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.