Specialty Grade Doctor - CAMHS ICCS and Crisis Team

Employer East London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site East London CAMHS Crisis Team and Intensive Community CAMHS Service Town London Salary per annum Closing 15/03/2026 23:59 Specialty Grade Doctor - CAMHS ICCS and Crisis Team NHS Medical & Dental:
Specialty Doctor

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Specialty Grade Doctor for ICCS and CAMHS Crisis Team

This post has been developed for an innovative and enthusiastic Specialty Grade Doctor to provide psychiatry input to the East London CAMHS Crisis Team and ICCS which provides crisis assessments and brief interventions to young people presenting in crisis across the 3 East London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney.

The Crisis team provide assessment and brief intervention to all young people presenting in crisis presenting to the hospital A&E departments, whereas the ICCS see young people at home and in the community supporting Community CAMHS services to provide intensive interventions that are designed to reduce the need for inpatient admission or support discharge from inpatient services. ICCS provides a gatekeeping function to all potential requests for inpatient admission.

They liaise closely with the NCEL provider collaborative Patient Flow Team to review all referrals with a view to providing intervention in the community where possible to avoid unnecessary inpatient admissions.

Please read our attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.

• Medical graduation
• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983, or plan to gain approval within 6 months of appointment.

• Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management
• Use of outcome measurements
• Experience of pharmacological treatments
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Experience of Quality Improvement projects & Clinical Audit
• Good working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act

• Excellent communication skills, verbal, non verbal and written
• Develop effective working relationships
• Function autonomously as well as being a team player
• Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients’ needs
• Apply research and theory to practice
• Skills and a range of therapeutic interventions and psycho-social treatment options
• Experience with Audit/Research

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the…