Consultant Children and Adolescent Psychiatrist

This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Redbridge CAMHS Community Team, based at the Redbridge Child Development Centre, Grovelands, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex, RM6 4XH.

This is a replacement full‑time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day‑to‑day work.

We are kind

We are respectful

We work with our communities

Rationale For Post

A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Redbridge’s 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).

This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation and covered by Locum doctors. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Redbridge Community CAMHS Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.

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.

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 their 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 from 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, 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.

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