Site Harlow CAMHS Team (West Essex) & Saffron Walden Town Harlow, Essex Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/03/2026 23:59
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Job overview
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist –Harlow (West Essex) SET CAMHS Team
Substantive
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG
Main duties of the job
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation.
This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The post is currently filled by a locum doctor due. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
●We are kind
●We are respectful
●We work with our communities
Working for our organisation
This post is for an CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the SET CAMHS Harlow (West Essex) Team at Alymer House, Kitson Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1DG.
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex'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 replacement, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on-call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on-call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on-call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first port of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on-call shifts are from 17:00 - 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT).
The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Harlow and West Essex. The service is provided by one team with one management structure, but due to the size of the area covered it is spread across two main bases.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the teams, 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 another CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist in the team (Dr Mariam Cherian) and will share supervision responsibilities for any future trainees based within the team.
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.
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
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:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Viviana Porcari, Job title: Associate Medical Director, Email address: Viviana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk, Additional information
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari Vivana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk
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