Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford North and West Adult AMHT

Are you a doctor interested in an exciting role in Oxfordshire delivering high quality mental health care in the community?

Oxford Health is looking for a 1 WTE consultant psychiatrist, who is an experienced and dynamic medical professional, to provide clinical leadership to the Adult Community Mental Health team in Witney. This post has become available as a result of an internal move.

The Trust is committed to high quality teaching and training for medical students, post graduate trainees in psychiatry, specialty doctors, students and other professionals. The consultant will provide direct clinical supervision and line management with opportunities to develop your skills in these areas.

Oxford is rated the top medical school in the world in THES ratings, and Psychiatry is rated by students as being the best specialty rotation on the course. Oxford has a track record of encouraging medical students to pursue psychiatry as a career, with 7% of graduates citing psychiatry as their first-choice career, equal highest of any UK medical school.

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible working practices.

Main duties of the job

With the changing circumstances of modern mental healthcare, the ability to adapt and demonstrate new ways of working is essential. You will have experience of working in General Adult Psychiatry and have great interpersonal skills working with colleagues to work collaboratively with our team managers, and to provide leadership and clinical expertise to our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary teams.

The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the community mental health team. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder.

The post holder will assess new routine, urgent and emergency referrals from other agencies alongside other clinicians, provide consultation to non-medical clinicians and offer ongoing management for patients requiring longer term care.

About us

This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the Oxfordshire adult service.

If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving mental health of patients and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT has all the right ingredients.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

We particularly welcome applications from clinicians who would like to negotiate dedicated PAs for clinical leadership, research, training or other areas of special interest.

The trust offers a generous relocation package and works hard to accommodate flexible working patterns for staff. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised, then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail

We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record of CPD. There are good links with Oxford University, with opportunities for teaching, research and offering placements to trainees.

Job description
Job responsibilities

A. Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to AMHT. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder such as trainees.

B. Work alongside the team manager, service manager and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.

C. Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the trainees and speciality doctor and any senior trainee placed with the team. This will include 1 hour per week psychiatry supervision for each trainee in an accredited training post. In addition, clinical supervision needs to be available and ensured daily for medical trainees and a pro rata equivalent level of supervision needs to be provided for speciality doctors.

D. Provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process and weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds. Family meetings, professionals meetings, further ad hoc patient reviews and seclusion reviews are expected as part of this role. The consultant will be expected to adhere to good clinical practice based on research evidence.

E. The post holder will contribute to referral management with the team manager and leadership team. The post holder will jointly review care plans with care coordinators, attend daily FACT meetings.

F. The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the team. Medical responsibility for patients usually remains with the GP, except where a medical member of the team takes a patient on for continuing treatment. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder. The post-holder will be required to undertake MHA assessments and undertake RC responsibility for patients as required.

G. Expected to be eligible for Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act. The Trust will support obtaining Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status if required. Health based place of safety assessments on the two Littlemore site are a core part of the job.

H. The post holder will fulfil the requirements for Mental Health Act work for patients under their care. This specifically relates to the preparation of reports for Tribunals and Managers meetings, as the Responsible Clinician. Appropriate transfer processes should be adhered to for accepting and discharging patients from inpatient wards under the MHA act.

I. Provide timely written correspondence to relevant professionals, including letters to GPs, other professionals, MHA Tribunal reports documenting assessments, on-going management, progress, and eventual discharge using Trust IT and clinical records system training will be provided where needed.

J. Work collaboratively with other agencies, in particular liaison with staff from other teams, AMHTs, primary care mental health teams, crisis and home treatment teams, etc.

K. Contribute to developing and delivering improved clinical services as outlined in the National Service Framework for Mental Health.

L. Provide Consultant cross-cover to other Consultant regularly within the team for annual leave, study leave, unplanned leave, and brief periods of sickness absence.

M. Participate in the Oxfordshire Adult on-call consultant Rota (Currently approximately 1 in 26 Oxfordshire, category A, banded at 3%). There are usually two specialist registrars ST1-3 trainees, on call, who take first line responsibility for referrals from the community. The ST4- ST6 trainees also provide second line support to ST1 to ST3 trainees on shift duty at the main hospital sites.

N. Participate in a no Fixed Abode rota (NFA) which all consultants are rostered on for newly presented patients who have no fixed address in Oxfordshire but require allocation to a team.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

Desirable

Training
Essential

Desirable

Clinical Experience
Essential

Desirable

Ability
Essential

Skills and Knowledge
Essential

Desirable

GMC
Essential

Desirable

Skills
Essential

Transport
Essential

Desirable

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