Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor
The closing date is 24 May 2026.
This post is for a community CAMHS Specialty Doctor position in the Redbridge CAMHS Community Team, based at the Redbridge Child Development Centre, Grovelands, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex, RM6 4XH.
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.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. Together with the two consultants (Dr Ragini Bahry and Naila Saleem), the postholder will be expected to 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. The postholder will work alongside two CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, one CAMHS SAS doctor and one Core Trainee within the service and share supervision requirements for trainees with them.
About us
NELFT North East London 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.
Job responsibilities
Substantive
Location: Grovelands, Chadwell Heath (RM6 4XH)
Salary: £61,542 – £99,216
Post and Specialty: Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor.
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.
Employment details
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).
On‑call responsibilities
The post does not currently include on‑call responsibilities.
Main responsibilities
- Organise and prioritise own and others’ workload in the day‑to‑day allocation of work.
- Depute when required in the team consultant’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
- Have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- Provide accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- Ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessment, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Clinical skills
- Act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- Hold full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
- Have gained further professional knowledge through accredited courses, workshops, study and in‑house training programmes.
- Be responsible and accountable for service delivery to clients/patients.
- Assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, including chronic, acute and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary, and continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
- Initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- Provide patients and relatives with information and education, ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
- Ensure practice is supported by research, evidence‑based practice, literature and peer review.
Training & supervision
- Act as mentor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of medical care.
- Actively support junior colleagues to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
- Ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- Assist in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- Undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relating to Trust strategy.
- Support new staff and their integration within the team.
- Support training as part of the role, including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
Education and teaching
- Provide in‑service training to junior doctors and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to the teaching of Medical Students and Trainee Doctors.
- Engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.
- Section 12 Approval or a commitment to work towards this.
Experience
- At least 4 years of full‑time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part‑time basis), at least 2 years of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed‑term specialty trainee or have equivalent experience and competencies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
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