Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Abingdon Mental Health Centre, Abingdon Community Hospital Town Abingdon Salary £61,542 - £99,216 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/09/2025 23:59
Specialty Doctor in Older Adult Psychiatry, South Oxon
Specialty Doctor
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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 work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Job overview
Are you a Specialty Doctor looking to facilitate mental health recovery in the community for people over the age of 65 and those under the age of 65 with a diagnosis of dementia?
You will provide specialist and holistic assessment, treatment and continuing care for older adults who suffer from a range of mental health problems including dementia.
Please note: This role will require you to travel and youmust therefore be comfortable with driving for work purposes and able to travel freely within the hours of the role. Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required
Main duties of the job
You will work collaboratively with the service users, their family, carers, and friends. The job will be carried out in partnership with the community mental health team and other professionals involved in the care of the service user.
The post holder will work predominantly with the duty team carrying out urgent assessments independently or jointly with the team CPNs, OTs and psychologists. There will be occasions of joint work with Adult Social Care and the Primary Care Teams.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides 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 designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to study leave (£1800 and 30 days over three years)
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Specialty Doctor will have the following responsibilities:
• Clinical Assessment and treatment of patients over 65 and those under 65 with dementia in the community.
• To provide supervision of other clinical staff attached to the team and contribute to the multidisciplinary working of the service.
• The post holder will work alongside the team manager and other Consultant Psychiatrists in the team to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
• The specialty doctor will be expected to provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process.
• Work collaboratively with other agencies. In particular liaison with staff from other teams to manage smooth and timely transfer into and out of the team.
• Providing timely written correspondence to relevant professionals documenting assessments, on-going management, progress, and eventual discharge using Trust IT and clinical records system – training will be provided where needed. Completion of CPA documentation when necessary.
• The specialty doctor will be expected to contribute to the collection of data as required by the Trust and other relevant agencies. This includes the timely recording of clinical activity data, and participation in clinical audit with appropriate administrative support.
• The specialty doctor will be expected to attend most regular directorate managerial meeting as necessary, particularly Joint Consultant Committee, Medical Staff Committee and Directorate/Managerial liaison meeting.
• The specialty doctor would be expected to participate in both a CPD peer group and a clinical supervision group with fellow specialty doctor.
• Specialty doctor would be expected to maintain their own programme of training and CPD accreditation with the support of their Lead consultant/Associate Medical Director/Clinical Director.
• The specialty doctor will normally cross-cover with the rest of medical staff in the team for annual leave, study leave and brief periods of sickness absence.
• Day-time responsibility for Mental Health Act assessments and related MHA administration of patients of the team’s service.
• In exceptional circumstances, as applies to all staff, Specialty Doctors may be expected to vary their job plans and to work flexibly (e.g. at another site, at other times) to meet the needs of wider Trust services.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GMC
* Shall have completed at least four years’ full-time Postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
* Some or all parts of MRCPsych or equivalent Attendance at MRCPsych course or equivalent Section 12 (2) approval: Mental Health Act, 1983
* Higher degree such as MD or PhD
* Additional clinical qualifications
* Full drivers license and access to vehicle for work purposes (adjustments can be made under the Equality Act)
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
* Held hospital appointments in psychiatry at residential doctor, core training, or equivalent.
* Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
* Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
* Experience at senior training level or equivalent
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS/ ABILITIES
* Leadership skills: ability to work through a collaborative multi-disciplinary framework
* Commitment to fostering a culture in the team that is respectful, fair, supportive and compassionate and role modelling these behaviours.
* Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
* Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
* Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
* Commitment to working with service users on service development
* Formal leadership and management training
* Experience of team /service leadership
* Experience of organisational development work
* Project management ability
CLINICAL SKILLS AND SUPERVISION
* Adequate clinical skills in old age psychiatry
* Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide medical input to the team
* Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty and to seek clinical advice appropriately
* Expertise in risk assessment
* Confident in therapeutic risk taking
* Commitment to clinical governance
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
TEACHING
* Interest in teaching
* Good teaching and communication skills
* Teaching medical undergraduates
* Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals
RESEARCH AND AUDIT
* Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice.
* Experience of grant-funded project work
* Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
* Audit or other quality improvement experience
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Adrian Alonso-Sanchez Job title Medical Lead for old age psychiatry - Oxfordshire Email address adrian.alonsosanchez@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number 07818 782408
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