Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist (Psychological Medicine)
The John Radcliffe Hospital provides a full range of acute medical and surgical services including maternity, trauma, intensive care, cardiothoracic and clinical neurosciences services. This post is predominantly focused on maternity services, providing integrated input for inpatients, running stand alone psychiatry outpatient clinics for maternity patients, joint outpatient clinics with obstetricians, supervising mental health midwives and involvement in various maternity MDTs.
The time spent seeing patients as part of the integrated team working and other activities will be agreed with the post-holder in their collaboratively produced job plan, which will in turn reflect the agreement with the relevant medical service.As an indicator of the direct patient care activity a consultant working in the medical team might expect to see on average 10 new and 20 follow patients each week. As part of the consultant (emergency cover, daytime) rota , periodically the post-holder will also be expected to work at any of the Trusts other locations: the Churchill Hospital which houses various specialties including renal and transplant, intensive care, haematology, oncology and palliative care services; the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a specialist orthopaedic hospital, which also houses rheumatology and rehabilitation; and the Horton General Hospital (HGH) in Banbury, a smaller associated District General Hospital.
The psychiatric service to the emergency departments is provided by the local mental health trust. The post-holder will be a consultant of the Acute Trustand will work asa member of one or more of the Trusts medical teams. The post-holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with academic colleagues on relevant clinical research projects.The specific medical team (s) the appointee works in, will be negotiated according to availability and the applicants preference.