Consultant Psychiatrist - Wallingford Community Hospital
Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist interested in being a part of the delivery and development of ground-breaking Mental Health Services?
We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership to the Adult Community Mental Health team based at Wallingford Community Hospital. The team is part of the well-established South Oxon Adults Community Mental Health Team. You will work alongside a dynamic multidisciplinary team made up of a variety of individuals including psychiatrists, psychologists, community psychiatric nurses, approved social workers, occupational therapists and support workers, providing the individual with a whole range of support.
The Trust is committed to high quality teaching and training for medical students, post graduate trainees in psychiatry, specialty doctors, students and other professionals. You’ll provide direct clinical supervision and line management with opportunities to develop your skills in these areas.
We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria).
Could this be the next step in your career? Come and join one of the UK's leading mental health Trusts and be part of a successful service delivering health services in the community to adults of working age.
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.
You will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the community mental health team and will be responsible for patients seen directly by you, as well as those seen by medical staff under your direct supervision.
You’ll 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.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust which has been rated as good by the CQC is a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 35 days with continuous service
- Study leave allowances
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme and dedicated Health and Wellbeing Team
Qualifications
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists' Guidelines)
- Fully registered with the General Medical Council
- Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview)
- Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
- A higher degree such as MD or PhD
- In good standing with RCPsych with respect to CPD
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience of clinical work in specialty at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
- Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
- Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
- Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
- Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
- Experience of working at consultant level
Organisation Skills/Abilities
- Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role modelling these behaviours.
- Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
- Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
- Formal leadership and management training
- Experience of team /service leadership
- Experience of organisational development work
- Project management ability
Clinical Skills and Supervision
- Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Expertise in risk assessment
- Confident in therapeutic risk taking
- Commitment to clinical governance
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
- Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors
- Experience in supervising non-medical colleagues e.g. NMP
Teaching
- Experience in teaching resident doctors
- Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
- Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals
Research
- Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice
- Audit or other quality improvement experience
- Experience of grant-funded project work
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
Registration
Other
- UK driving licence or evidence of proposed alternative
- Car owner
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.
£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum | pro rata
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