Consultant Psychiatrist - City and North East Adult Mental Health Team

Job overview

We are recruiting for a part-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Oxford City and North East Adult Community Mental Health Team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established Community Psychiatric Team serving adults of working age. You'll provide  senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the multidisciplinary team, working closely with the Team Manager, Deputy Team Managers, Service Manager and consultant colleagues.

The role is based within Oak Team, which serves adults aged 18 to 65 across a primarily urban catchment area, with some rural communities, and a population of approximately 78,000. The team receives around 450 referrals per year. You'll be working to improve outcomes for adults presenting with significant clinical complexity, including severe and enduring mental illness, complex risk presentations and needs requiring coordinated multidisciplinary input.

Oxford Health is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading mental health trusts, with a strong reputation for clinical excellence, innovation, research and medical leadership. We are committed to supporting our consultants through flexible working, high-quality professional development, research opportunities and a strong focus on wellbeing.

If you are looking for a rewarding leadership role with the opportunity to shape and develop adult mental health services, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the team, including complex case formulation, risk assessment and decision-making in high-risk or diagnostically challenging presentations.
• Act as a senior clinical decision-maker within MDT forums and provide specialist psychiatric advice across the service, supporting recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and evidence-based care.
• Work alongside the whole AMHT team managers, service manager and the other consultant psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
• Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the trainees and speciality doctor and any senior trainee placed with the team. This will include 1 hour per week psychiatry supervision for each trainee in an accredited training post.  In addition, clinical supervision needs to be available and ensured daily for medical trainees and a pro rata equivalent level of supervision needs to be provided for speciality doctors.
• Provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process and weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds. Family meetings, professionals’ meetings, further ad hoc patient reviews and seclusion reviews are expected as part of this role. The consultant will be expected to adhere to good clinical practice based on research evidence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The City and North East AMHT is based at Warneford Hospital and is organised into three sub-teams: Oak, Willow and Aspen. This post is based within Oak Team, which serves adults aged 18 to 65 across a primarily urban catchment area, with some rural communities, and a population of approximately 78,000. The team receives around 450 referrals per year, with referral patterns evolving following the development of the PCMHT. Oak Team holds a whole-team caseload of approximately 380 patients requiring longer-term treatment and coordinated multidisciplinary care.

Oak Team works with adults presenting with significant clinical complexity, including severe and enduring mental illness, complex risk presentations and needs requiring coordinated multidisciplinary input. The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide direct assessment and treatment, while also offering senior clinical oversight of the wider caseload through MDT discussion, care planning and complex case review. The post offers a varied clinical role, including typically one to two new assessments per week, follow-up clinics and complex reviews within a secondary care CMHT model.

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).