Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
COMMUNITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT
CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST
(CHELMSFORD – MALDON)
Job Details:
Salary
£93,666- £126,281 per annum (Pro-rata)
Contract
Substantive
Hours
Full-time: 6 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA =
On call
Frequency 1:7; Category B - 2% on call supplement (Pro-rata)
Location
Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX & Harkenwell Clinic, Wantz Chase, Maldon, CM9 5DN
Qualifications needed:
·Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
·CCT or equivalent
·Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
·Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
·Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
Main duties of the job
Why NELFT?
NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.
With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.
We are currently recruiting to a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Chelmsford CAMHS Team (Mid Essex), which is split between Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford CM2 0QX and Harkenwell Clinic, Wantz Chase, Maldon, CM9 5DN.
Working for our organisation
Why Essex?
Essex is a great county, where you can enjoy beautiful countryside villages, historical towns, stunning waterfronts, and quiet coastlines, while easily commuting into London.
Essex services have a culture of continual learning and development. Several service development and QI initiatives are being progressed.
You will be expected to:
·Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Mid Essex.
·Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team
·Work directly with young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers and acute hospitals
·Participate in the on-call rota frequency is currently 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement (pro-rata).
·Support your peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative.
·Work alongside another 2wte CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists.
·Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting, and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be successful in your application, you will need:
·To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,
·To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Child and Adolescent mental health care,
·Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
·To be a team player
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
Desirable criteria
2. CCT or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
3. Excellent communication skills both verbally and written. Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches. Ability to ✓ Application Form Interview Best care by the best people 11 provide medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team and to function as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
4. Clear thoughts on how to involve service users in service development and to provide a service which is experienced as being “service-user friendly”
Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. An understanding of Leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
Desirable criteria
6. Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based management interventions
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
7. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
8. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
9. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
10. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.