Consultant Community Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist The closing date is 25 March 2026 JOB TITLE: Consultant Community Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Crisis & Therapeutic Home Treatment Team Flexible working available - including job share, part- time, remote sessions considered Main duties of the job This is a new post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, to provide high quality preventative care, and to reduce the time CAMHS spend in A&Es. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services. This is a new, substantive, full‑time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). This post is vacant currently and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust's Values in their day-to-day work.

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About us This post is for a CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Southend, Essex, and Thurrock (SET) CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, based at Stapleford House, 103 Stapleford Close, Chelmsford, CM2 0QX. This is a new post, that has been created following receiving additional resource from commissioners in order to have substantive medical capacity in the SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment (THT) Team, to provide high quality preventative care, and to reduce the time CAMHS spend in A&Es. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Essex's Community CAMHS Services. This is a new, substantive, full‑time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). This post is vacant currently and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. Job responsibilities On‑call responsibilities: The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist out of hours on‑call rota. The community CAMHS Consultants participate in an on‑call rota with a current frequency of 1:7, with a 2% of basic salary, Category B on‑call supplement. This rota mainly provides telephone advice to the crisis teams, which is the first point of call for children in crises out of hours, covering Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The on‑call shifts are from 17:00 – 09:00 Monday to Friday, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. The on‑call does not include support to psychiatric inpatient units or Section 136 suites, as this is provided by a different organisation in Essex (EPUT). Person Specification GMC

Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

CCT or equivalent

Knowledge

Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

Knowledge

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

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr