Consultant Psychiatrist

This is a full-time substantive Consultant post on Maryon Ward, located in the Oxleas House Mental Health unit in Woolwich. The appointment will be to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the previous Full time Substantive Consultant Psychiatrist in the team.

A comprehensive description of the Adult Acute Inpatient Services, is available in the Trust' Standard Operating Procedure Adult & Older People Acute Mental Health Inpatient Wards.

The aim of the Adult Inpatient Service is to ensure that individuals presenting with acute mental illness (who cannot be managed anywhere except in a 24-hour hospital setting) are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need.

To assist recovery by:

• Ensuring as far as possible that service users are educated about the nature of their illness (especially if hospitalised for the first time)
• Ensuring that the service user has an agreed crisis plan that gives clear arrangements for any future crisis.
• Ensuring that the service user is re-integrated into the community at the earliest possible opportunity (through leave,involvement of Home Treatment Team etc) and are offered choice via personalisation mechanisms such as direct payments, assistive technology.

Users are given information as to advocacy services and how to access them.

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

"We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it's a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it's a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people's lives."

Ify Okocha

Chief Executive

There are three general adult acute wards based at Oxleas House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Avery, Shrewsbury and Maryon wards admit both informal and detained patients. The site also has a Male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (The TARN), an Older Adults Inpatient Unit (Sheperdleas Ward) and the Greenwich Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team.

The focus of all the acute wards is on multi-disciplinary team assessment and treatment of mental illness through a range of treatments and collaborative care. Treatment will be achieved with suitable levels of observation and a range of treatment strategies, including pharmacological and psychological approaches, within a safe and secure environment.

There is a part time psychologist that supports with reflective practices sessions on the unit and the assessment and treatment of patients with specific psychological needs on the ward. The team can additionally request support from the Oxleas House Peripatetic Doctor as needed.