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 ADULT PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR
MHWT - WEST
(BARKING – ESSEX)
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
Job Details:
Salary
£59,175 - £95,400 per annum (Pro-Rata)
Contract
Substantive
Hours
Full-time: 10 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 8:2)
On call
None
Location
Barking Community Hospital, Upney Lane, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX.
Qualifications needed:
·Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
·Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.
·Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults, including neurodevelopmental disorders
At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
Main duties of the job
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 Adult mental health care,
·Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
·To be a team player
NELFT Benefits:
·Relocation expenses
·Career Development and training
·Just & Compassionate Culture
·Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
·Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
·Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
·Employee Assistance Programme
·Health & Wellness initiatives
·11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few
·Retail Discounts
·Flexible working and agile working
·Cycle to work scheme
Working for our organisation
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 for a Community Adult Psychiatry Specialty Doctor position in the West Mental Health & Wellness Team, based at Barking Community Hospital, Upney Lane, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX.
This is a replacement, substantive, full-time post, which will be vacant soon. We wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.
You will join two full-time Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, and a Core Trainee doctor within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.
Why Barking & Dagenham?
Barking & Dagenham has extremely good transport links to central London and eastwards to Essex and Kent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be expected to:
·Workaspartofmultidisciplinaryteamsprovidingcaretoadultpeople with mental health needs, across Western Barking & Dagenham.
·Provideseniormedicalsupporttotheteam,anddirectinputonclinicalcases.
·Provideguidanceandsupervisiontotheteam.
·Work directly with adults and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external adult mental health providers, and acute hospitals.
·Work alongside two Adult Consultant Psychiatrists, and Core Trainee within the service and share clinical supervision requirements with them.
·Developlinksalreadyestablishedwiththelocalacutetrusts’A&Edepartments and inpatient wards.
·Beresponsibleforpatientsallocatedtothemandwillassess,manage,plan,and deliver care.
·Supportyourpeersandtheteammanagerandbeaneffectiveteammember whilst working on their own initiative.
·Supervisejuniorcolleaguesandliaisewithotherhealthandsocialprofessionals and agencies.
Person specification
GMC Registration
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
2. Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults
Experience
Essential criteria
4. At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
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:
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.