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 include:

• 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
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme and dedicated Health and Wellbeing Team

We value our staff and believe investing in you is central to delivering outstanding care. We particularly welcome clinicians seeking dedicated PAs for leadership, research, training or other special interests. Strong supervision, robust 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. We are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised, then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and on the Specialist Register or be within six months of attaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). Please refer to the attached job description for a comprehensive list of duties. Please see that attached job description for more information on this role, our Trust and our service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's 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.

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Experience of working at consultant level

Organisation Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Leadership skills
• 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

Desirable

• Formal leadership and management training
• Experience of team /service leadership
• Experience of organisational development work
• Project management ability

Clinical Skills and Supervision

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• Experience in teaching resident doctors
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience of teaching non‑medical mental health professionals

Desirable

• Medical education qualification

Research

Essential

• Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice
• Audit or other quality improvement experience

Desirable

• Experience of grant‑funded project work
• Publications in peer‑reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration

Other

Essential

• UK driving licence or evidence of proposed alternative

Desirable

• Car owner

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