Consultant Adult Psychiatrist

The closing date is 04 May 2026

This post is for a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist in the Havering Home Treatment Team (HHTT), based at Tantallon House, Goodmayes Hospital and working into the Havering borough of London to provide home treatment for mental health patients in crisis.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide direct input to clinical cases. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with adult patients in mental health crisis in the community, and their families and liaise as appropriate with inpatient and other community consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop the links with the whole mental health pathway and primary care networks in Havering to continually improve our services.

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 responsibilities

Consultant Psychiatrist – Havering Home Treatment Team

Substantive or Fixed Term (as preferred)

Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for mental health patients experiencing a crisis in their mental health.

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 one of two full-time posts for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established Home Treatment 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).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register in General Adult Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT).
• Approved Clinician status/ eligibility

Experience

• Comprehensive understanding of biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders.
• A range of evidence‑based treatment approaches.
• Awareness of NHS and NELFT strategic priorities and clinical governance.

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 name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust