Specialty Doctor Mental Health

Specialty Doctor Mental Health

Closing date: 04 May 2026

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust is offering a full-time substantive post of Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry within the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Hub.

This role involves 8 Direct Clinical Contact sessions (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities sessions (SPAs) across five days (10 sessions per week).

Main duties of the job

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of inpatients, including mental state, physical health, risk, and diagnostic formulation.
• Manage psychiatric emergencies, including patients under Section 136, with senior support available as required.
• Prescribe and monitor pharmacological treatments; contribute to psychosocial care planning under consultant supervision.
• Participate in safety huddles, risk formulation, clinical reviews, team meetings and contribute to patient centred multidisciplinary care.
• Provide clinical leadership in the absence of more senior doctors and support junior medical staff as needed.

About us

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people in the London boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, friends and families feel confident that their health needs are well met, and we are engaged in research and evidence based practice.

Job responsibilities

• Whole time equivalent post
• Based at Block 8, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane, London IG3 8XJ.
• Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry working within the Mental Health Crisis Assessment and therapeutic space of the Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD).
• Full time 1.0 WTE; permanent or fixed term as preferred.
• No current on call duties, but out of hours rota available for ad hoc shifts paid at bank rates.
• Expected to join Section 12 approved rota for assessments of patients detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act, approximately 2-3 days per year.
• Support the Consultant Psychiatrist and multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality care in the Crisis Hub, supervise junior colleagues, and liaise with health and social care professionals.
• Direct patient care for adults in crisis, engagement with families, and coordination with external mental health services and acute hospitals.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• Section 12 Approval or a commitment to work toward this.

Experience

• At least 4 years of full time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained part time) of which at least 2 years are in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty.
• Experience as a specialty trainee or equivalent experience and competencies.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust