Main area Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Fixed term: 10 months (FTC until August 2026)
Hours:
* Part time
* Job share
6 sessions per week (Must work Wednesdays & Thursday mornings if possible) Job ref 363-MRSS7451841
Employer East London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site York House Annexe Town London Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2025 23:59
Locum Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist CAMHS Crisis & ICCS
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work across two teams in the East London CAMHS Alternatives to Admissions Pathway, in the CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Community Care Service.
We are looking for a dedicated and responsive Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to work as a part of a job share across both teams for 6 PAs per week.
The post holder will be joining two established multidisciplinary teams working across three boroughs in East London, offering home treatment and crisis assessments in hospitals.
Main duties of the job
Offering psychiatric assessment and interventions for young people in mental health crisis and offering oversight of their management and diversion from admission to alternative intensive pathways.
Joining multidisciplinary team meetings and offering clinical leadership to care planning and goal based mental health interventions.
The post holder would also be expected to attend senior management meetings to contribute to clinical governance structures and strategy. They will also be expected to provide leadership and represent the service in multi agency forums.
There will also be supervisory responsibilities for junior medical staff.
This role requires a degree of flexibility and responsiveness because of the unpredictability of working with young people in crisis and risk associated with this.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specifications for full details of this vacancy.
Person specification
Education
* Full GMC registration
* Eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register or CCT in appropriate specialty (or within 6 months)
* Section 12 approved and Approved Clinician status or willing to apply for approval
* Higher academic degree
Experience
* Possesses an extensive range of clinical knowledge and excellent clinical skills.
* Experience of assessment and management of CYP with complex mental health disorders
Knowledge
* Shows an approach based on critical enquiry and evidence based practice
* Sound knowledge of legal frameworks under which young people can be assessed and treated including; consent, Mental Health Act, Children Act, safeguarding
Communication
* Strong leadership and co-ordination skills with ability to direct and organise teams
* Excellent communication skills with a range of different people
* Ability to build effective relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other professionals
* Ability to cope with considerable pressure and adapt to constant change and new demands
* Shows enthusiasm and initiative in pursuing innovation and the highest standards for patients, juniors, colleagues and the organisation
Travel
* Ability to travel to other venues in the community including patients’ homes
Other
* Adherence to the highest ethical and professional standards
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
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 job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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