# COMMUNITY ADULT CONSULTANT PSYCH (MHWT – EAST)

**Company**: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
**Location**: Rainham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Community Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join our East Mental Health & Wellness Team (MHWT-E), based at Beam Park Health Centre, 2 Halewood Way, Rainham, RM13 8QZ.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the eastern part of the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.

The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours and weekends for Mental Health Services in NELFT.

The main duties of the job include:

- Organising and prioritising own and others' workload

- Deputising for the team manager in their absence

- Providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes

- Ensuring effective risk management at team level

The postholder will be expected to:

- Act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions

- Have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC)

- Be responsible for providing senior medical support to the team

- Provide guidance and supervision to the team

- Work directly with adult patients and their families

- Liaise with other external mental health providers and acute hospitals

The salary for this post is £113,565 to £150,569 a year.

The post is permanent and full-time, with 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) and 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

**Job 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.

**Person Specification:**

- CCT or equivalent.

- Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.

- Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.

- Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

**Essential Experience:**

- Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in adults.

- Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.

- Working with interpreters and translators.

**Desirable Experience:**

- Masters or Doctorate degree.

- A management qualification.

- ECDL or equivalent qualification.

- Experience in strategic development

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## Skills

### Required
- CCT or equivalent
- Section 12 Approval
- Approved Clinician status
- Specialist Register

### Nice to have
- Masters or Doctorate degree
- A management qualification
- ECDL or equivalent qualification
- Experience in strategic development

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