Consultant Psychiatrist, Perinatal Mental Health Team, Oxfordshire

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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 0.6 WTE consultant psychiatrist, who is an experienced and dynamic medical professional, to provide clinical leadership to the Perinatal Mental Health Team. This post has been created with additional funding to join the existing consultants in the team. This funding recognises local clinical demands and recommendations from the Royal College of Psychiatrists around staffing (CR232. Perinatal Mental Health Services: Recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women. September 2021).
We are 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 these skills.
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, with 7% of graduates citing psychiatry as their first-choice career, equal highest of any UK medical school.
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. We also support flexible working practices.
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 Oxfordshire Perinatal 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.
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
Excellent opportunities for career progression
Individual and Trust wide learning and development
33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 35 days with continuous service
NHS Discount
Pension scheme
Lease car scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Mental Health First Aiders
Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
Staff networking and support groups
Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to Perinatal Service. 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 such as trainees.
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. This will include 1 hour per week psychiatry supervision for each trainee in an accredited training post. In addition, clinical supervision needs to be available and ensured daily for medical trainees and a pro rata equivalent level of supervision needs to be provided for speciality doctors.
Provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process and weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds. Family meetings, professionals’ meetings, further ad hoc patient reviews and seclusion reviews are expected as part of this role. The consultant will be expected to adhere to good clinical practice based on research evidence.
The post holder will contribute to referral management with the team manager and leadership team. The post holder will jointly review care plans with care coordinators, attend daily FACT meetings.
The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the perinatal team. Medical responsibility for patients usually remains with the GP, except where a medical member of the team takes a patient on for continuing treatment. 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 be required to undertake MHA assessments and undertake RC responsibility for patients as required.
Expected to be eligible for Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act. The Trust will support obtaining Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status if required. Health based place of safety assessments on the two Littlemore site are a core part of the job.
The post holder will fulfil the requirements for Mental Health Act work for patients under their care. This specifically relates to the preparation of reports for Tribunals and Managers meetings, as the Responsible Clinician. Appropriate transfer processes should be adhered to for accepting and discharging patients from inpatient wards under the MHA act.
Provide timely written correspondence to relevant professionals, including letters to GPs, other professionals, MHA Tribunal reports documenting assessments, on-going management, progress, and eventual discharge using Trust IT and clinical records system – training will be provided where needed.
Work collaboratively with other agencies, in particular liaison with staff from other teams, AMHTs, Mother and Baby Units, primary care perinatal and mental health teams, crisis and home treatment teams, etc.
Contribute to developing and delivering improved clinical services as outlined in the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
Provide Consultant cross-cover to other perinatal Consultant regularly within the team, and to the Buckinghamshire perinatal consultant and other teams occasionally for for annual leave, study leave, unplanned leave, and brief periods of sickness absence.
Participate in the Oxfordshire Adult on-call consultant Rota (Currently approximately 1 in 26 Oxfordshire, category A, banded at 3%). There are usually 2 specialist registrars ST1 to ST3 trainees, on call, who take first line responsibility for referrals from the community. The ST4 or ST6 trainees also provide second line support to ST1 to ST3 trainees on shift duty at the main hospital sites

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