Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

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The closing date is 20 March 2026

JOB TITLE: Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Flexible working available

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).

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

1.2 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 managers 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 Trusts risk register.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MRCPsych 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 CCT

Knowledge

• An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
• An understanding of system leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice
• An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.

Clinical Skills

• Excellent clinical skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written.
• Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches.
• Ability to provide clinical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearPer annum Pro rota