Consultant Psychiatrist - Liaison CAMHS
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 for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you a forward-thinking Consultant Psychiatrist within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry looking to join a newly established clinical leadership group within BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW)?
As an innovative and collaborative leader, you will be passionate about enhancing and transforming the BSW CAMHS liaison service ultimately looking to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate the least restrictive interventions for young people.
This service will look to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer, considering medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain, safeguarding contexts and advocating for them to receive the right interventions and services.
You'll be responding to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult and support colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk and complex presentations working as part of the MDT. Flexibility is required to cover three District General Hospital’s (DGHs): the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Great Western Hospital in Swindon and Salisbury District Hospital.
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).If you're looking for a rewarding role where you can make a difference to the lives of young people, join our CAMHS liaison service.
Main duties of the job
You will be integral in the leadership team to develop this service to offer a more comprehensive liaison offer across BSW which will need to consider medically unexplained symptoms, functional pain and symptoms, safeguarding contexts, liaising with networks around young people and advocating for them so they receive the right interventions and services for them.This will also include developing close links and working alongside BSW Crisis and Home treatment Service (CaHTs) which accepts referrals for young people in crisis and requiring intensive home treatment and Marlborough House Adolescent Inpatient Unit in Swindon to reduce avoidable admissions and facilitate least restrictive interventions for young people
You will be medically responsible for the management and treatment of children, adolescents and families on their caseload and other medical staff under your supervision. Following the guidance around New Ways of Working you'll be offering leadership and advice to MDT members but will not be medically responsible for all the patients seen by the team.You'll be required to be available to respond to emergency presentations including Mental Health Act assessments and to consult to and support team members and wider colleagues in managing cases of perceived high-risk presentations. Consultation to other teams and services is also required to support with formulation and care planning for young people that fall within a CAMHS Liaison remit.
Working for our organisation
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, plus bank holidays, rising 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
At OHFT we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.
You can start getting to know by having a look at our recruitment video made by members of the team and children, young people and young adults who have accessed our services:
BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Medical degree
- Fully registered with the General Medical Council
- Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines
- Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
- A higher degree such as MD or PhD
- Additional clinical qualifications
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice.
- In good standing with RCPsych with respect to CPD.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of clinical work in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
- Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
- Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
- Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
- Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
- Experience of working at consultant level in a CAMHS Community or Inpatient setting
organisational skills and abililties
Essential criteria- Leadership skills
- 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
Other Requirements
Essential criteria- Full registration
- Meet specifications set out in the GMC
- Independently mobile to travel between base and clinic sites
Clinical Skills and Supervision
Essential criteria- Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical leadership to the team
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Expertise in risk assessment
- Confident in therapeutic risk taking
- Commitment to clinical governance
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
- Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors
Teaching
Essential criteria- Experience in teaching resident doctors
- Good teaching and communication skills
- Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
- Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals
- Medical education qualification
Research and Audit
Essential criteria- Experience of research work and/or ability to interpret research findings and apply them to clinical practice
- Audit or other quality improvement experience
- Experience of grant-funded project work
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
Other requirements
Essential criteria- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- UK driving licence or evidence of proposed alternative.
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes (adjustments can be made in line with the equality act)
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- 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.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing