Redbridge Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrist

A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Red bridges Community CAMHS Services. This post will soon be vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 8 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The postholder will be part of the CAMHS Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on call will cover service delivery for Children and Adolescents presenting with mental health problems. The on-call rota is covered by the local community substantive CAMHS consultants and the two inpatient consultants. This rota is currently 1:12 rota, with a 3% Category A salary supplement.

Once this post is filled, the rota would be 1:13, which equates to 4 weeks a year. The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing
care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Redbridge.
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.