Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more detailed information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
- Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval
Desirable
- Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medical, psychological or other studies or postgraduate teaching qualification
Training
Essential
- Higher specialist training in dual or general adult / older adult psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post
- CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview; OR CESR
Desirable
- Sub-speciality or other specialist clinical training relevant to post in particular CRHT experience.
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in general adult/ Older adult psychiatry.
- Experience of close collaborative work with social care and other agencies
Desirable
- Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group
- Development of close collaboration with primary care services
- Experience of early intervention in psychosis services and knowledge prodromal states for psychosis
Ability
Essential
- Ability to undertake full range of consultant responsibilities
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- a) Leadership skills -Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
- b) Organisation and management skills - Ability to understand how organisations
- Commitment to active clinical governance
- Ability to promote effective team working
- Capacity to prioritise workload
- Active participation in clinical audit
- Commitment to interagency partnership working
- c) Communication skills - Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations. Good spoken and written English.
- d) Professional approach - Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of professionals.
- e) Personal skills - Must have interest in and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their carers.
- f) Teaching experience -Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees
- Application of research evidence to clinical practice
Desirable
- Relevant experience of the administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
- Inter-agency partnership working and development
- Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- Supervision of advanced level trainees
- Research experience and skills
Other requirements
Essential
- a) GMC registration - Full
- b) Transport - Mobility as required for the post
- c) Professional attributes - Meet specifications set out in GMC Guidance: Duties of doctor
- d) IT skills - Good IT skills including typing
Desirable
- Driving licence and own transport
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address
White Leaf Centre
Bierton Road
Aylesbury
HP20 1EG