Consultant Psychiatrist - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in Oxford

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Overview

Work mode: On-site, Oxford
Contract: Permanent contract, full-time hours
Holiday: 33 days holiday
Commute: Cycle to work scheme

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Oxford.

The role

Job overview

We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based at Manzil Way in Oxford where you will have an active leadership role and medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of adults of working age and older adults who are at risk of developing a mental health crisis.

With your expertise in Adult Psychiatry, you'll join our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to deliver patient care through home treatment enabling early discharge from inpatient care. You'll work closely with inpatient wards and community teams, including the Inpatient Social Work service and the Patient Flow Transformation lead.

We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria).

Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and on the Specialist Register or be within six months attaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or an equivalent approved indicator of training.

Could this be the next step in your career? Come and join one of the UK's leading mental health Trusts at the forefront of research infrastructure and make a real difference to people's lives.

Main duties of the job

This role provides senior medical input and clinical leadership to the Oxfordshire Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). You will have responsibility for your own patients as well as those patients seen by medical staff under your supervision.

The key components of the CRHTT service are:

1. Crisis response (emergency assessments and reviews)

2. 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

3. Gate-keeping admissions to psychiatric beds

4. Enabling early discharge from psychiatric admission

OHFT mental health urgent care works in close collaboration with other community mental health provision, Inpatient Services and wider system partners including Thames Valley Police, South Central Ambulance Service, the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership (OMHP) organisations (Response, Mind, Elmore, Connections and Restore), Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT and primary care services. CRHTT services are now widespread across the UK and provide a genuine alternative to hospital care and treatment.

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
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The CRHT provides 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. The core team works from 7 am to midnight, 7 days a week and the team are currently transitioning to working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Consultants work Monday - Friday 9-5. Medical cover outside of CRHT doctor working hours is provided by duty and on-call doctor rotas.

A CRHTT service achieving full fidelity to the prescribed model provides a short-term (2 to 6 weeks duration) community focused intensive treatment and care package aimed at facilitating recovery at home for people in mental health crisis who may otherwise require inpatient care or can leave inpatient care early while still symptomatic in the acute phase of their illness.

The team provides a flexible, responsive, and prompt multidisciplinary service and includes assessment and diagnosis of mental health problems and provision of effective, brief, evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Services will be accessible and relevant, non-discriminatory, will respect cultural values, and aim to be user friendly for service users and carers/young carers. The service will aim to reduce the stigma attached to mental health care and ensure that care is delivered in the least restrictive and disruptive manner possible. Service users have the right to confidentiality and to be treated with dignity and respect.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Medical degree
Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post
Full GMC registration
Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).

Desirable criteria

MSc or higher degree
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)

Training

Essential criteria

Experience of clinical work in CRHT at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years

Desirable criteria

Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty

Desirable criteria

Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
Experience of working at consultant level in an inpatient environment or in Older Adult services