Locum Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Ashford)

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Locum Community CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Ashford)

The closing date is 17 December 2025

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract

6 month Fixed Term Contract

Hours

No out of hours on call

Location

Lenworth Clinic, 329 Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 0QE

This post is for a Locum CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Ashford CAMHS Community Team, based at Lenworth Clinic, 329 Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 0QE.

Main duties of the job

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organization. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Kent's Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a part-time post - 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 5.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Ashford.

About us

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 a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Surekha Boggaram) and 0.6wte Specialty Doctor (Dr Vinutha Ramesh) within the service and will provide supervision requirements for the Specialty doctor in the service.

Job 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.

Person Specification GMC

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent

Knowledge

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

Knowledge

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

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 year per annum pro rota