COMMUNITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (THANET - KENT)

COMMUNITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (THANET - KENT) 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: Frequency 1:14; Category A - 3% on call supplement

Location: Orchard House, 17 Church Street, St Peters, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2TT

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:

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 Consultant Psychiatrists, 0.4wte Paediatrician, and 0.6wte CAMHS Specialty Doctor 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

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

Career Development and Training:

We offer a Just & Compassionate Culture, award-winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives, and various employee benefits including:

• Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
• Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health & Wellness initiatives
• 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network
• Retail Discounts
• Flexible working and agile working
• Cycle to work scheme

To apply for this role, please visit or and search under job reference number 395-MED514-24.

Person Specification 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