Community CAMHS Specialty Doctor

A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Redbridges 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).

On-call responsibilities: The post does not currently include on call responsibilities. The successful candidate will work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to children and young people with mental health needs across Redbridge.

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. You will work alongside two CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, 1 CAMHS SAS doctors, and a Core Trainee within the service and will share supervision requirements for trainees with them. There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services.

NELFT NHS 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, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.