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Job summary

Main area
Interventional Psychiatry
Grade
Medical CT3 or ST4-8
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (from Feb 2025)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
267-INTPSY-101-C
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Interventional Psychiatry Service (ECT/Ketamine) suite, Warneford Hospital
Town
Oxford
Salary
£55,329 - £63,152 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Fellow in Interventional Psychiatry

Medical CT3 or ST4-8

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

Clinical Fellows in Interventional Psychiatry

A Clinical Fellow post is available for 12 months from 5th February 2025 within the Interventional Psychiatry Service based at the Warneford Hospital Oxford. 

This is a unique opportunity to gain experience of rapidly acting antidepressants, especially ketamine, associated group psychotherapy, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).  The Oxford IPS ketamine clinic has treated over 300 patients with over 3000 IV and 9000 oral doses of ketamine and has a full programme of NHS and self-pay clinics. 

The name ‘Interventional Psychiatry Service’ reflects the new modalities of treatment for resistant affective disorders which are provided through what was formally the ECT service.  These currently include ketamine, related rapidly acting antidepressants administered by a variety of routes, repetitive transcranial magnetic simulation (rTMS), transcranial direct current stimulation as well as electroconvulsive therapy. 

Main duties of the job

  1. Experience offered includes:

    • Assessment and review for ketamine or TMS treatment
    • Administration of ketamine and TMS
    • Teaching, supervising and covering ECT
    • Facilitating ketamine preparation, integration and relational dynamic psychotherapy groups
    • Sub-investigator on clinical studies
    • Participation in journal club and other educational events
    • Service development tailored to Fellow’s interests
    • Time and support for external training

    This post does not have educational approval from the Postgraduate Dean and will not be recognised for training.  It does not attract out of hours supplement.

Working for our organisation

OXFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION TRUST AND RESEARCH

 

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/   is a research-active Trust http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/research undertaking studies ranging from small educational projects through to very complex and intensive Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products (CTIMPS) across a variety of disciplines from dementia, mental health, community health, children and young people services. 

OHFT is one of only two Trusts in the country to host a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/. In partnership with Department of Psychiatry https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/, this supports infrastructure for experimental medicine, as does the the NIHR funding for the Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford. There are also research 3T MRI and MEG facilities on the Warneford site.  The Department of Psychiatry has an international reputation for research with major funding streams including the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

You will find the full detailed job description  which includes the main responsibilities in the attached document.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Should have GMC registration and licence to practice in UK
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
  • Up to date Good Clinical Practice (research)

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of managing serious psychiatric illness
  • Experience of assessing suicide risk.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of delivering ECT treatment

Ability

Essential criteria
  • To exercise an intermediate level of clinical responsibility as delegated by the consultant in charge.

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 research and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their carers
  • Must have experience of teaching medical undergraduates and have an interest in teaching Interest in participating in research
  • Experience of delivering individual psychological treatments
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in delivering clinical research. Publications in scientific journals
  • Experience of delivering group psychotherapy

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rupert mcshane
Job title
Consultant Psychiatrist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07788445691
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