Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford North and West Adult AMHT
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 full time and 1 0.7 consultant psychiatrist, who is an experienced and dynamic medical professional, to provide clinical leadership to the Adult Community Mental Health team in Witney. This post has become available as a result of an internal move.
The Trust is committed to high quality teaching and training for medical students, post graduate trainees in psychiatry, specialty doctors, students and other professionals. The consultant will provide direct clinical supervision and line management with opportunities to develop your skills in these areas.
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 community 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.
Responsibilities
* Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to AMHT. 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.
* Work alongside the team manager, service manager and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
* Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the trainees and speciality doctor and any senior trainee placed with the team.
* Provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process and weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds.
* Contribute to referral management with the team manager and leadership team.
* Participate in the Oxfordshire Adult on-call consultant Rota and a no Fixed Abode rota.
Benefits
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
* 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
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