Job summary
COMMUNITY ADULT CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MHWT WEST) Substantive 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) Barking Community Hospital, Upney Lane (IG11 9LX)

Main duties of the job
This post is for an Adult Consultant Psychiatrist position in the West Mental Health & Wellness Team, based at Barking Community Hospital, Upney Lane, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX. Rationale for post: This is a well-established post that 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 Barking & Dagenham Adult Community Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a replacement post and is full-time - 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 also has a daytime (9am - 5pm) Section 136 rota, with an approximate frequency of one day every three months. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

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: 14 October 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: BCH-3ML-002308
Job locations: Barking Community Hospital, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Main 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.

Clinical Skills: To act 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. The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC). Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes. To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients. To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• Desirable: Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
• Desirable: A postgraduate qualification in psychiatry

Experience

• Essential: Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders.
• Essential: At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
• Essential: Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
• Essential: Working with interpreters and translators.
• Essential: Application Form Interview Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
• Desirable: Experience in general medicine

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: Barking Community Hospital, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Associate Medical Director, Basit Hussain, medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk

Closing date: 27 October 2026. Apply through our website.