Specialty Grade Doctor – CAMHS ICCS and Crisis Team

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Specialty Grade Doctor for ICCS and CAMHS Crisis Team

This post has been developed for an innovative and enthusiastic Specialty Grade Doctor to provide psychiatry input to the East London CAMHS Crisis Team and ICCS which provides crisis assessments and brief interventions to young people presenting in crisis across the 3 East London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney.

The Crisis team provide assessment and brief intervention to all young people presenting in crisis presenting to the hospital A&E departments, whereas the ICCS see young people at home and in the community supporting Community CAMHS services to provide intensive interventions that are designed to reduce the need for inpatient admission or support discharge from inpatient services. ICCS provides a gatekeeping function to all potential requests for inpatient admission. They liaise closely with the NCEL provider collaborative Patient Flow Team to review all referrals with a view to providing intervention in the community where possible to avoid unnecessary inpatient admissions.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

Please read our attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Medical graduation
  • Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Desirable

  • Higher degree
  • Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
  • Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983, or plan to gain approval within 6 months of appointment.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management
  • Use of outcome measurements
  • Experience of pharmacological treatments
  • Risk assessment and risk management

Desirable

  • Experience of Quality Improvement projects & Clinical Audit
  • Good working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS/ ABILITIES

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills, verbal, non verbal and written
  • Develop effective working relationships
  • Function autonomously as well as being a team player
  • Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients’ needs
  • Apply research and theory to practice

Desirable

  • Evidence based service development
  • Skills and a range of therapeutic interventions and psycho-social treatment options
  • Experience with Audit/Research

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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