Consultant Community Crisis & Therapeutic HTT
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust · Radiographer · viaNHS Jobs
£115565.00 to £150569.00
- Closing date
- 30 Oct 2026
- Posted
- 2d ago
- Specialism
- Radiographer
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5663783
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Job summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment Team
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Substantive Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Stapleford House, Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 OQX Salary £113,565 -£150,569
Main duties of the job
This is a new post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, to provide high quality preventative care, and to reduce the time CAMHS spend in A&Es. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services.
This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
This post is vacant currently and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. 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 p 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
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
£115,565 to £150,569 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
SHX-3ML-002321
Job locations
Stapleford House
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 0QX
United Kingdom
Job description
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.
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari Vivana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk
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.
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari Vivana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk
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