COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE)

COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE) NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract: Substantive

Hours: None

Location: The Courtyard, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1PA

Qualifications needed:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• 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

Main duties of the job:

To be successful in your application, you will need:

• To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT's values
• To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Adult Eating Disorders
• Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care
• To be a team player

Job responsibilities:

You will be expected to:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to patients with eating disorders across all ages, although more focus on the adult patients
• Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases
• Provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with adults (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external adult mental health providers, and acute hospitals
• Work alongside another Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, 2.8wte CAMHS Consultants, 0.4wte Paediatrician, and 1wte CAMHS Core Trainee within the service, and will share supervision requirements for junior doctors in the service
• Further develop links already established with the local acute trusts A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services
• Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care
• Support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative and supervise junior colleagues
• Commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies

Person Specification: Registration:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications:

• CCT or equivalent

Section 12:

• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

Knowledge:

• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it

Specialist Register:

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata