Consultant Psychiatrist, Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment, Bucks

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

The successful candidate will be offered a £15,000 recruitment bonus and a relocation allowance of up to £8,000.
Oxford Health is looking for outstanding candidates for this attractive permanent position to work in North Crisis and Home Treatment Team which is based at the White Leaf Centre, Aylesbury. This role is to provide excellent clinical care to service users, clinical leadership and expertise within our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary team.
The Crisis team was established in Buckinghamshire in January 2020. This is a relatively new service. One full time consultant post has become available in the North Crisis Team MHT following reconfiguration of the service. The post holder will be working along with 5.6 WTE consultants in the CMHT and 0.6 consultants in the Crisis team.
The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is an exciting partnership that formally brings together six local mental health organisations from the NHS and the charity sector: Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire Mind, Response and Restore. The aim is to work more closely with each other and with people who have mental health problems to make it easier for people to get the best possible support when they need it.
The CRHTT will initially provide the home treatment function to adults of working age and older adult service users leaving inpatient care but will expand to include crisis response and inpatient gate keeping within the near future. The consultant provision will initially be one full time consultant. Applicants wishing to work less than full time will be considered.
There are close links with Oxford University and The Trust hosts and collaborates with a wide range of research infrastructure. In September 2016, a partnership between Oxford Heath NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford was awarded £12.8M to support a new NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC; Director Prof John Geddes) focused on mental health and dementia.
The Trust welcomes applications from appropriately qualified clinicians who would like to work with the BRC, CLAHRC or NIHR CRN (Clinical Research Network) as part of their agreed job plan. Trust has recently set up a Centre for Patient Safety and Quality.
There are extensive opportunities for teaching and training of medical students, postgraduate doctors, members of the multidisciplinary team and other service providers, and for appraising and mentoring consultant colleagues.
We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
As such we particularly welcome applications from clinicians who would like to negotiate dedicated PAs for clinical leadership, research, training or other areas of special interest.
We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record of CPD.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
Excellent opportunities for career progression
28 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.

THE KEY COMPONENTS OF CRHTT IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE WILL BE:

Crisis response (emergency assessments and reviews)
Intensive home treatment characterized by the availability of multiple visits each day which are of a length and content to allow for specialist psycho-social intervention to be delivered.
Gate-keeping admissions to psychiatric beds
Enabling early discharge from psychiatric admission
The CRHTT exists to provide a range of psycho-social interventions to support people in crisis, or who are at risk of developing a mental health crisis, to receive care by means of the most collaborative and least restrictive interventions available. The service will cover adults of working age and older adults.
Applicants for the above vacancies 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) or an equivalent approved indicator of training.
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