# Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - CIMHS

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Psychiatry
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113565.00 to £150569.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 6 sessions per week (Monday to Wednesday 9-5)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-13T08:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16T14:16:16.580Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8329604
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8329604?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is an opportunity to join a well-established general adult community mental health team in Newham. The Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) is a multi-disciplinary primary care facing service providing both brief and longer-term care to service users with complex mental health needs.

### Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients, by delivering the following interventions:

- Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients’ capabilities, strengths and resilience
- Mental state examination
- Clinical diagnosis
- Initiation and reviews of pharmacological treatments
- To lead multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and management of individual’s risk.
- Physical health assessments
- Referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services)
- Liaison with GP, community and forensic services.
- Reviews of clinical progress and care plans
- Assessment of readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning.
- Safeguarding planning processes
- Consultation and liaison with families and carers.
- Liaison with the criminal justice system, police, Courts and probation when required for the care and management of patients.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult and older adult mental health service
- An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation
- Understanding of social care structures relevant to older adults
- Excellent knowledge of mental health and capacity law, in particular application of the MCA 2005

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months (older adult or dual older adult/adult)
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

**Desirable**

- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

### Skills/Abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery

**Desirable**

- Formal leadership/management training

### Clinical experinece

**Essential**

- Excellent experience of operation of older adult mental health service
- Assessment and treatment of a wide range of mental health and psychological disorders with evidence-based interventions
- Assessment of cognitive impairment and diagnosis of dementia and delirium

**Desirable**

- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Experience of contributing and/or leading on service planning, development and management

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10652359)
- [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090)
- [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107)
- [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844)
- [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106)

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