Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA's per week)
- Job ref
- 267-MSOXSAS-116-C
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manzil Way
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £52,530 - £82,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 12:00
Employer heading
Locum Specialty Doctor in Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
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.
Job overview
The specialty doctor posts were created to support the development of the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) in Oxfordshire.
The CRHTT is a key component of mental health provision in Oxfordshire. The CRHTT sits in the Oxfordshire Mental Health Urgent Care Pathway which comprises of: Emergency Department Psychiatric Service – EDPS, Police ‘street’ Triage, Ambulance Triage, Night Assessment Team, Safe Haven services (provided by Oxfordshire Mind in Oxford and Banbury). Th
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. The key components of CRHTT in Oxfordshire will be:
- Crisis response (emergency assessments and reviews)
- 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
- Gate-keeping admissions to psychiatric beds
- Enabling early discharge from psychiatric admission
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to work the new Crisis resolution and Home treatment team.
The post-holder’s line-manager will be Dr Lola Martos, Associate Medical Director. The post-holder will have key working relationships with Dr Michael Rufus, current locum consultant in the team.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as good by the CQC. We have a relatively new Chief executive Dr Nick Broughton and Chief medical Officer Dr Karl Marlowe who are both keen to bring our rating up to excellent. The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is an exciting partnership that formally brings together six local mental health organizations from the NHS and the charity sector: Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford shire Mind, Response and Restore. The aim is to work much more closely with each other and with people who have mental health problems to make it easier for people to get the best possible support when they need it.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Under the supervision and direction of the consultant, the post holder will be responsible for:
- Assessment and brief follow up of referrals to the team, liaison with relatives/carers, other professionals and the wider MDT. Liaison with other teams and attendance at meetings will also be necessary.
- Providing timely written correspondence to relevant professionals documenting assessments, ongoing management, progress, and discharge letters using Trust IT and clinical records system – training will be provided where needed.
- Active commitment to delivering the Trust’s clinical governance agenda. The AMHT has its own governance agenda including audit, quality, patient experience, learning from incidents, patient safety initiatives and interrogation of data.
- Contribution to developing and delivering improved clinical services as outlined in the National Service Framework for Mental Health and Long term Plan.
- The post holders will be expected to 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.
- The post holders will be expected to participate in and attend local teaching and training for specialty doctors and the wider medical community.
- The post holder will be expected to help triage referrals and attend MHA assessments and therefore S12 approval (or the ability to apply for it) is essential.
Person specification
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Held hospital appointments in psychiatry at SHO/CT or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Experience at ST or SD level or equivalent
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- To exercise an intermediate level of clinical responsibility as delegated by the consultant in charge.
- Ability to work through a collaborative multi-disciplinary framework.
- Ability to contribute to effective team working. Capacity to prioritise workload.
- Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations. Good spoken and written English.
- Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of professionals.
- Must have interest in and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their Carers.
- Interest in teaching
Desirable criteria
- Teaching medical undergraduates
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- General medical qualification
Desirable criteria
- Some or all parts of MRCPsych or equivalent
Training
Essential criteria
- Shall have completed at least four years’ full-time Postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at MRCPsych course or equivalent Section 12 (2) approval: Mental Health Act, 1983
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lola Martos
- Job title
- Associate Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901000
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