Community Old Age Consultant Psych, Older Adults
Company: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Job ID: C9395-26-0611

Job summary
Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist Older Adults Mental Health Team Havering 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

BASE: 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, Romford, Essex, RM3 0QA
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year

This post is for a Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Havering Old Age Community Mental Team based at 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, RM3 0QA

The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for Old Age mental health patients. In the course of your work, you will help shape service development, support staff and champion the Trust values of kindness, respect, and partnership with communities. This is a full-time post for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established service with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job
On-call responsibilities
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Mental Health Services in NELFT.

The on call covers Adult and Older Adult services. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The Trust also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota with an approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months, with all Section 12 approved doctors expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.

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: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: HWC-3ML-002338
Job location: Harold Wood Clinic, Romford, Greater London, RM3 0QA, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with adult patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with inpatient, crisis and other community consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop links across the whole mental health pathway and primary care networks in Havering to continually improve services for our communities.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to older adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the central part of the London Borough of Havering (plus a small number of patients who reside in that part of the Borough but whose GP is elsewhere). This roughly equates to residents of the Electoral Wards named Brooklands, Romford Town, Squirrel's Heath, Emerson Park, St Andrew's, and Hylands as indicated on the borough map in Section 3.1 below.

Supervision responsibilities for the Specialty Doctor and the Core Trainee will be divided between the Consultants in the Team.

The Medical staffing in the team consists of:

• 3 whole time equivalent (wte) Consultants + 1 x 0.6 (wte) Consultant
• 1 x 0.8 (wte) Consultant + 1 x 0.4 (wte) Consultant in Memory Services
• 1 wte SAS Doctor
• 2 whole time equivalent (wte) Core/GP Trainees

We receive Year 4 medical students on clinical placement from Barts & The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) as well as Physician Associate students from QMUL and Anglia Ruskin University. There are opportunities for consultants to take an active role in teaching in terms of clinical curriculum delivery as well as delivering lectures and acting as examiners in the Clinical Examinations at QMUL.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register for Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT).
• Approved Clinician status/ eligibility

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification

Experience
Essential

• Comprehensive understanding of biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders.
• A range of evidence-based treatment approaches for people with frailty and in Old Age.
• Awareness of NHS and NELFT strategic priorities and clinical governance.

Desirable

• An understanding of systemic leadership principles.
• Working knowledge of quality improvement methodology

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
Employer's website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Associate Medical Director Olumide Adeotoye, medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk

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