Employer: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bexley Home Treatment Team, Woodlands Unit, Queen Mary's Hospital
Town: Sidcup
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 Dependent on experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Specialty Doctor
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
Job overview
The post-holder will work with other members of the MDT, including nursing, psychology, social work, and support workers, monitoring individuals’ safety, providing a range of social, psychological, and medication-based interventions, and working closely with families and carers.
The team works closely with the unit’s two inpatient wards, Lesney and Millbrook, assisting the unit’s management team with their active bed-management programme, facilitating early discharge, and with community teams to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission. The post holder will provide, working with team colleagues, rapid medical assessments of mental state and risk, where appropriate, assist with formulating and diagnosing patients’ difficulties in a holistic manner, and instigate appropriate care packages.
Main duties of the job
1. Support to the consultant and the HTT in developing and maintaining the caseloads of all patients on the caseload ensuring that Core Assessments, Risk Assessments and Care Plans are available in RiO case records.
2. Provision of reviews, and home assessment sessions, including Mental Health Act, where necessary to the HTT.
3. Development of comprehensive case-note summaries, comprehensive multi-axial assessment processes and care planning in line with NICE Guidelines.
4. To attend relevant HTT meetings.
5. To ensure the involvement of families and carers, wherever possible, with the patient’s consent in treatment planning.
6. To support the consultant in preparing any necessary reports, and attending Mental Health Review Tribunals (although this is a very infrequent occurrence in the HTT).
7. To support the consultant to ensure that all Relapse Prevention and Crisis Plans for patients on Enhanced CPA are available in RiO case records and are updated.
8. Providing clinical cover for the consultant, when she/he is away on leave, with supervision by another consultant.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification attached to view the full details.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty.
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
Skills & Knowledge
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
* Participated in continuous professional development.
* Participated in research or service evaluation.
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
* Has actively participated in clinical audit.
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
* Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
* Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
* Has led clinical audits leading to service change.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr. Akim Kassim
Job title: Consultant & Associate Clinical Director
Email address: [emailprotected]
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