Consultant Psychiatrist - Learning Disabilities Team

Job overview

We are recruiting for a part-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Learning Disability Service, based in Oxford. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key leadership role within a well-established multidisciplinary service supporting adults with learning disabilities across Oxfordshire.

You will provide senior clinical leadership, delivering high-quality, person-centred care while working collaboratively with a skilled team of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, therapists and partner agencies. The role offers a varied caseload, involving complex assessments, treatment planning and clinical supervision, alongside opportunities to contribute to service development, teaching and quality improvement.

As part of a forward-thinking Trust with strong links to the University of Oxford, you will benefit from a culture that values innovation, continuous learning and clinical excellence. 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).

For applicants who have not yet obtained CCT, we are able to offer the  Portfolio pathway (formerly known as CESR) | The Federation to support you in developing your consultant career at Oxford Health.

Join us and help shape services that make a genuine difference to the lives of people with learning disabilities.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the Learning Disability Team (LDT). Medical responsibility for patients usually remains with the GP, except where a medical member of the LDT takes a patient on for continuing treatment. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by themselves, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder.
• Work alongside the Team Manager and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the Community LDTs to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
• 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.
• Attend most regular directorate managerial meeting as necessary, particularly Joint Consultant Committee, Medical Staff Committee and Directorate/Managerial liaison meeting.
• Participate in and attend the local training programme for junior doctors, a CPD peer group and a clinical supervision group with fellow consultants.
• Maintain your own programme of training and CPD accreditation with the support of their Lead consultant/Associate Medical Director/Clinical Director.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Community Learning Disability Teams Professional staff working with adults with a learning disability are currently organised into two community teams throughout the County, serving North and west Oxfordshire (Banbury, Bicester and Witney), and Oxford City and South Oxfordshire (based in Oxford and Abingdon). Each team consists of psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, community LD nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and admin. The teams provide assessment, consultation and therapeutic services to adults with a learning disability and their carers. The current post which is an established role is within the City and South Oxfordshire LDT which covers the City and South Oxfordshire areas and has an open case load of around 350 or which around 150 at any time have need for psychiatric input. This post would be to provide consultant support to the city area with support from 1 full time speciality doctor. The south area is supported by a full time consultant with 0.6 speciality doctor support.

Intensive Support Team (IST) Provides services across both CLDTS

A Medium secure facility, Evenlode For up to 10 people with a learning disability and forensic history from Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. It is situated on the Littlemore Hospital site and forms part of the Adult Mental Health medium secure unit, this service and the Forensic community Learning disability team are managed via the forensic directorate. It provides a structured therapeutic and secure environment for the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of people with mild learning disabilities who have been charged with an offence.