NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
COMMUNITY ADULT CONSULTANT PSYCH (MHWT – EAST)

The closing date is 08 December 2026

Job summary
Community Adult Consultant Psychiatrist

This post is for an Adult Consultant Psychiatrist position in the East Mental Health & Wellness Team (MHWT-E), based at Beam Park Health Centre, 2 Halewood Way, Rainham, RM13 8QZ.

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).

On-call responsibility:
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Adults and Older Adults presenting with mental health problems. This is currently a 1:50 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The trust has also a daytime (9am - 5pm) Section 136 rota, with an approximate frequency of one day every three months.

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the eastern part of the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham (plus a small number of patients who reside in that part of the Borough but whose GP is elsewhere).

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 adult patients (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external mental health providers, and acute hospitals. You will join another full-time Adult Consultant Psychiatrists (Dr Louis Nel) in the East Team. The team also has a full-time Core Trainee, a full-time GPvTS, and 0.5wte Senior Trainee, for whom the consultants have supervision responsibilities.

About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Details
Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: BPX-3ML-002543
Job locations: Beam Park, Rainham, Essex, RM13 8QZ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Organising and prioritising own and others' workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• Deputising when required in the team manager's absence and delegating appropriately to other medical staff.
• Maintaining organisational knowledge of Trust protocols and procedures and adhering to them.
• Providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• Ensuring 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.

Clinical Skills

• Acting as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions, guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• Holding full registration with a licence to practise from the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Gaining further professional knowledge through accredited courses, workshops, study and in-house training programmes.
• Being responsible and accountable for service delivery to clients/patients.
• Assessing and developing care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, including chronic, acute and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary, continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• Initiating referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• Providing patients and relatives with information and education so they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
• Ensuring practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• CCT 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 CCST.

Desirable

• Masters or Doctorate degree.
• A management qualification.
• ECDL or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in strategic development.

Experience
Essential

• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults.
• Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
• Working with interpreters and translators.

Desirable

• An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF, and clinical governance priorities.

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.

Employer details
Employer name: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address: Beam Park, Rainham, Essex, RM13 8QZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Consultant Basit Hussain, medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk

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