# Consultant Psychiatrist in Home First Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-in-home-first-team/306ed13b-09b6-4a91-817a-9319604d2467 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-in-home-first-team/306ed13b-09b6-4a91-817a-9319604d2467.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Rochford Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 PA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 40 hours per week (Less than Full Time/job-share applications welcomed and flexible working patterns will be supported.) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T13:05:27.984Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Harlow/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Adult_Psychiatry/Community_Adult_Psychiatry-v8268546 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8268546?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview **THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THIS POST IS PENDING ROYAL COLLEGE APPROVAL** Would you like to be part of leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health, community and inpatient care? Why not join Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust for the opportunity to flourish and excel in your career and be part of our dedicated medical team. EPUT is looking to appoint an enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Home First team based at Derwent Centre, Harlow, Essex. The Home First Team provides crisis care in the community and sits within the Trust’s Urgent Care Pathway. The team works closely with the three community mental health teams in West Essex based in Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford, who may refer patients who are in a mental health crisis and requiring more assertive management and intensive monitoring in the community. The Home First Team also plays an important role in helping the Trust achieve its Flow and Capacity targets which are in place to ensure effective utilisation of inpatient hospital beds. The Home First Team will “gatekeep” admission to mental health wards with a view to assessing whether the patient could be supported in the community with the Home First Team, thereby avoiding admission. Further, the Home First Team may support inpatient wards in proactively discharging patients who are recovering and now able to be supported in the community. ### Main duties of the job The post-holder is required to work independently and accountably as part of a team of clinicians offering Mental Health services. Working collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7 day a week, 24 hours a day service for 365 days a year. You must have full GMC registration and be on the Specialist Register, with an appropriate CCT or equivalent or be within six months of obtaining your CCT on the date of the AAC. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Attend CMHT and PCN MDT meetings to discuss and support ongoing care of patients - Provide regular clinics to review patients via CPA process - Provide flexible emergency medical support for the teams patients - Support patients under the MHA and the processes required under the MHA - Support clinically and supervise your training doctor. - Work collaboratively with Primary Care. - Liaise with other services within the organization and outside of the organization to optimize the care of your patients. ### 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 ### TRANSPORT **Essential** - Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative. ### ELIGIBILITY **Essential** - Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of appointment - Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months. - Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment - Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment. **Desirable** - In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice. ### Qualifications **Essential** - MB BS or equivalent medical qualification. **Desirable** - Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management. - MRCPsych - On the Specialist Register with qualifications General Adult. - Postgraduate degree in psychiatry MRC Psych or equivalent. ### CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. - Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty. ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990) - [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853) - [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355) - [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659) - [jd consultant in home first team (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10583322) - [why join the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 91.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1849) - [ps consultant in home first team (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10583323) - [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.