Consultant Psychiatrist

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 Perinatal Mental Health Team. The additional funding recognises the local clinical demands and recommendations from the Royal College of Psychiatrists around staffing (CR232. Perinatal Mental Health Services: Recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women. Applicants who are interested in a less than full time role are welcome to apply.
The Trust is committed to high quality teaching and training for medical students, post graduate trainees in psychiatry, specialty doctors, students and other professionals. 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.
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 Oxfordshire Perinatal 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.
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.
At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
As such 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.
There are good links with Oxford University, with opportunities for teaching, research and offering placements to trainees.
Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to Perinatal Service. 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.

~ 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.

~ 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.

~ The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the perinatal 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. Expected to be eligible for Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act. Health based place of safety assessments on the two Littlemore site are a core part of the job.

~ The post holder will fulfil the requirements for Mental Health Act work for patients under their care. 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.

~ Work collaboratively with other agencies, in particular liaison with staff from other teams, AMHTs, Mother and Baby Units, primary care perinatal and mental health teams, crisis and home treatment teams, etc.

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

~ Provide Consultant cross-cover to other perinatal Consultant regularly within the team, and to the Buckinghamshire perinatal consultant and other teams occasionally for for annual leave, study leave, unplanned leave, and brief periods of sickness absence.

~ 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 ST4 to ST6 trainees, on call, who take first line responsibility for referrals from the community. The ST4 or ST6 trainees also provide second line support to ST1 to ST3 trainees on shift duty at the main hospital sites.

~ 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.


Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act) Approval
Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medical, psychology, or other studies

Training
Higher specialist training in psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post.
CCT in Psychiatry OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
Sub-speciality or other specialist clinical training relevant to post such as working in in-patient and PICU settings as a specialist trainee or Consultant.

Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group
Development of close collaboration with primary care services
Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions.
Good spoken and written English.
Must have interest in and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their carers.
Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees
Relevant experience of the administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
Inter-agency partnership working and development.
Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
Supervision of advanced level trainees
Valid driving licence