Job overview

Are you a doctor interested in a rewarding role in Oxfordshire delivering high quality mental health care in the community?

Oxford Health is looking for a part‑time Consultant Psychiatrist, who is an experienced and dynamic medical professional, to provide clinical leadership to the Perinatal Mental Health Team.

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.

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.

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. 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 support flexible working practices.

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.

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.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 33 days annual leave prorata, 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

At OHFT 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.

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.

The trust offers a generous relocation package and works hard to accommodate flexible working patterns for staff. We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Medical degree
• 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).
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.

Desirable criteria

• A higher degree such as MD or PhD

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Higher specialist training in psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post.
• 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

Experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
• Ability to work in multi‑disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
• Expertise in risk assessment
• Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice.
• Audit or other quality improvement experience

Desirable criteria

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

Documents to Download

Consultant Psychiatrist Perinatal MHT JD (PDF, 817.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Dr Vivek Khosla

Title: Associate Medical Director, Adult Community

Email: vivek.khosla@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 01865 902907