Consultant in General Adult Psychiatrist South Oxon Adult inWallingford inWallingford PUBLISHED TUE 5 NOV 2024

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 WTE consultant psychiatrist, who is an experienced and dynamic medical professional, to provide clinical leadership to the Adult Community Mental Health team. The team is part of the well-established South Oxon Adults Community Mental Health Team.

We offer a £15,000 recruitment bonus and a relocation allowance up to £8,000 to eligible successful candidates.

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.

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.

About us

The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the team. Responsibility for the physical health care of patients usually remains with the GP. 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 work alongside the team manager and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the team to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service. Contribution to developing and delivering improved clinical services as outlined in the National Service Framework for Mental Health and the Mental Health Long Term Plan. Involvement in Primary care network development and partnership working is an important part of this job.

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