Job summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Eating Disorder SET CAMHS Team
CONTRACT: 10 (+1) Programmed Activities (11 PAs)
Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Widford Hall, Tattersall Way, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 STD

Post and Specialty:
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant retiring.
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). An additional PA (11th PA) under a fixed-term contract is available as an optional and will be subjected to annual review through job planning and can be used flexibly to carry out extra work, audit, research, or quality improvement projects in line with service priorities.
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 Trusts Values in their day-to-day work.
We are kind
We are respectful
We work with our communities

Main duties of the job
This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Southend Essex Thurrock (SET) CAMHS Eating Disorder Team based at Widford Hall, Tattersall Way, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 STD.
Rationale for post:
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant retiring.
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).
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 eating disorders and other comorbid mental health needs, across 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.

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.

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 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 on 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.

Training & Supervision:

• To act as clinical supervisor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
• Ensure junior colleagues are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
• To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
• To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Administration:

• To follow good medical practice standards in documenting all assessments of patients and to share necessary information with other health professionals.
• To provide reports on time.
• To ensure that all letters and summaries are checked and sent promptly to referring GPs, other colleagues, and agencies.
• The post holder will ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of all clinical activity.
• The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.

Management:

• This is not a formal management position, however as a Senior Clinician you are expected to:
• Support the team manager and other consultants in managing members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure a high level of patient care and ensure patient safety.
• Act as line manager to all medical members within the team offering clinical supervision as appropriate.
• Address all areas of clinical governance within the multidisciplinary team. The components of clinical governance include Education and Training, Clinical Audit, Clinical effectiveness, Research and Development, Openness and Risk Management.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.

Desirable

• Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry
• Application Form
• Postgraduate qualification

Experience
Essential

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

Desirable

• An awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities.
• Understanding of change management

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: Widford Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8TD, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:
Associate Medical Director: Viviana Porcari
Email: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk