ITT & CRISIS ASSESSMENT CAMHS PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR

ITT & CRISIS ASSESSMENT CAMHS PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Main area: Mental Health

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref: 395-MED142-25

Site: Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital

Town: Kent

Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/05/2025 23:59

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

INTENSIVE HOME TREATMENT & CRISIS ASSESSMENT CAMHS PSYCHIATRY SPECIALTY DOCTOR

(STAPLEHURST, TN12 0ER)

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract: Substantive

Hours: Optional - worked in PAs

Location: Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0ER

Qualifications needed:

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
• Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.
• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children, including neurodevelopmental disorders
• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

Main duties of the job

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 Child and Adolescent mental health care
• Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care
• To be a team player

Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

We are currently recruiting for a Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor position in the Intensive Home Treatment & Crisis Assessment Team, based at Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital in Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0ER.

This is a new, substantive, full-time post – 10 PAs with 8 DCCs and 2 SPAs. You will work under the supervision of a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist in the IHT / Crisis pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs, across Kent and Medway.
• Provide senior medical support to the team and direct input on clinical cases.
• Provide guidance and supervision to the team.
• Work directly with children and young people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external CAMHS mental health providers, and acute hospitals.
• Develop links with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards.
• Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
• Offer clinical supervision and teaching to the core trainee on placement.
• Support your peers and the team manager and be an effective team member while working on their own initiative.
• Supervise junior colleagues and liaise with other health and social professionals and agencies.

Person specification

GMC

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Section 12

• Section 12 certification, or a commitment to work towards this.

Knowledge

• Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in children

Experience

• At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.

Correspondence with us

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