About this role
Job summary
Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist
Older Adults Mental Health Team Havering
10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs), Havering.
BASE: 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, Romford, Essex, RM3 0QA
Salary - £113,565, 725 - £150,569
Main duties of the job
Post and Specialty: This post is for a Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Havering Old Age Community Mental Team based at 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, RM3 0QA
The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for Old Age mental health patients. In the course of your work, you will help shape service development, support staff and champion the Trust values of kindness, respect, and partnership with communities.
This is a full-time post for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established service with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary team. This is a full-time substantive post, and we would consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. It is a post with 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
Rationale for post: This is a well-established post that has become vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. There has also been a restructuring of the medical input to the teams (to align medical input to the local Primary Care Networks).
About us 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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities
The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with adult patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with inpatient, crisis and other community consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop links across the whole mental health pathway and primary care networks in Havering to continually improve services for our communities.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to older adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the central part of the London Borough of Havering (plus a small number of patients who reside in that part of the Borough but whose GP is elsewhere). This roughly equates to residents of the Electoral Wards named Brooklands, Romford Town, Squirrel’s Heath, Emerson Park, St Andrew’s, and Hylands as indicated on the borough map in Section 3.1 below. Supervision responsibilities for the Specialty Doctor and the Core Trainee will be divided between the Consultants in the Team.
The Medical staffing in the team consists of: • 3 whole time equivalent (wte) Consultants + 1 x 0.6 (wte) Consultant
General Duties
Organise and prioritise own and team workload in line with Trust protocols.
Ensure effective clinical and team-level risk management.
Training & Supervision
Provide clinical supervision and education to team doctors, promoting high standards of care.
Maintain personal professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
Undertake regular appraisal and maintain a personal development plan.
Facilitate integration of new staff and support team-wide training initiatives.
Education
Deliver in-service teaching to medical students, trainees, and multidisciplinary team members.
Administration
Complete all patient-related administrative tasks accurately and promptly.
Use the Trust’s electronic case record system effectively.
Management
Collaborate with the team manager and senior colleagues to ensure safe, high-quality care through clinical governance.
Act as line manager for resident doctors.
Leadership
Contribute to service development, business planning, and clinical leadership within the service and directorate.
Demonstrate leadership to foster effective teamwork and positive relationships across the Trust.
Promote integrated care and a supportive team culture.
Participate in Trust-wide mental health strategy and advocate for co-production in service development.
Share knowledge and best practice based on current research and evidence.
Communication
Communicate effectively with colleagues, senior managers, and clinical leads.
Convey complex patient information clearly to support collaborative decision-making.
• 1 x 0.8 (wte) Consultant + 1 x 0.4 (wte) Consultant in Memory Services • 1 wte SAS Doctor • 2 whole time equivalent (wte) Core/GP Trainees
We receive Year 4 medical students on clinical placement from Barts & The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) as well as Physician Associate students from QMUL and Anglia Ruskin University. There are opportunities for consultants to take an active role in teaching in terms of clinical curriculum delivery as well as delivering lectures and acting as examiners in the Clinical Examinations at QMUL.
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Associate Medical Director: Dr Olumide Adeotoye [email protected]
Deputy Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sarah Dracass [email protected]
Medical Staffing: [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register for Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT)
Approved Clinician status/ eligibility
Desirable
Postgraduate qualification
Experience Essential
Comprehensive understanding of biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders.
A range of evidence-based treatment approaches for people with frailty and in Old Age.
Awareness of NHS and NELFT strategic priorities and clinical governance.
Desirable
An understanding of systemic leadership principles.
Working knowledge of quality improvement methodology
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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 details Employer name NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address Harold Wood Clinic
Romford
Greater London
RM3 0QA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)