Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a full-time Specialty Doctor to join the Enfield Acute Adult Services based in Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The role is based on Cumbria villa ward which is a 15-bedded mixed sex psychiatric transition and recovery ward at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The post is now available on a substantive basis following the service being established in October 2024.  

Please refer to the updated Job Description for this full time (10 PAs) post and the Person Specifications within it.

This post has been submitted for approval to the Royal College of Psychiatrists in April 2025 and this is awaited at present. 
Please see the Job description for more information.

Interviews will take place 2-4 weeks after the application window has closed.

Main duties of the job

. This post offers 10 Programmed Activities per week (8PAs for DCC and 2PAs for SPA), with sessions embedded in the timetable for clinical supervision, Quality Improvement work and access to the Trust-wide weekly academic programme. The post holder will be the principal junior medical professional on the ward and work directly with the Consultant Psychiatrist. The post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team; clerking new patients, regularly reviewing their mental states and performing essential physical health tasks and examinations. 

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.