About the role
Salary: £113565.00 to £150569.00
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community CAMHS Psychiatrist Eating Disorder SET CAMHS Team
CONTRACT: 10 (+1) Programmed Activities (11 PAs)
Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Widford Hall, Tattersall Way, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 STD
Post and Specialty
This is a well-established post but has been vacant due to the previous consultant retiring.
This is funded as eight Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). An additional PA (11th PA) under a fixed-term contract is available as an optional and will be subjected to annual review through job planning and can be used flexibly to carry out extra work, audit, research, or quality improvement projects in line with service priorities.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trusts Values in their day-to-day work.
We are kind We are respectful We work with our communities
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 port 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).
Main responsibilities: