Consultant Psychiatrist Chiltern - East Community Mental Health Team

Oxford Health NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in High Wycombe is looking for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join their Chiltern East CMHT. This role offers leadership responsibilities and extensive support for professional development. The position includes attractive benefits like a recruitment bonus and a relocation allowance. Candidates should have membership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and experience in adult psychiatry. Competitive salary offered.

Benefits

£15,000 recruitment bonus

Relocation allowance up to £8,000

33 days annual leave

NHS Discount across shops

Cycling to work scheme

Qualifications

• Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues.
• Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a programme of training and CPD accreditation.
• Provide senior leadership to the CMHT.
• Participate in the out-of-hours rota.

Skills

Leadership skills

Organisation and management skills

Communication skills

Ability to undertake full range of consultant responsibilities

Education

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Higher degree or equivalent in relevant medical field

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist Chiltern - East Community Mental Health Team

Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist seeking a clinical leadership opportunity within the Chiltern East CMHT in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire?

You will be offered comprehensive support from doctor in training colleagues and dedicated admin resource.

The CMHTs accept routine referrals, while the Crisis and Home Treatment teams deal with all emergency and urgent referrals. Referrals are initially triaged by the Mental Health Gateway (a Single Point of Access) which operates independently from the CMHT providing comprehensive triage (including supporting information) prior to assessment.

Staff within the CMHTs work around consultants and catchment areas that correspond as closely as possible to specific geographical areas and GP surgeries (PCNs), to allow maximum familiarity with these patients and better links with the corresponding GPs. Cross cover for leave/absence is arranged first within locality (east and west) and then across the Chiltern CMHT.

We offer:

• £15,000 recruitment bonus
• Relocation allowance up to £8,000 to eligible successful candidates

Main duties of the job

Chiltern CMHT covers patients registered with 35 GP practices across the south half of Buckinghamshire, forming 7 PCNs (3 in the west around High Wycombe and 4 in the east part of the county served by the Amersham satellite hub). Consultants work 9-5 Monday to Friday and provide senior leadership to the team alongside the team managers (Band 8a level) and deputy managers (Band 7

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details

About us

Oxford Health provides a comprehensive range of mental health services to the populations of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and a number of Child & Adolescent and specialised services (e.g. Forensic, Eating Disorders) to adjacent counties and beyond. It also provides community services to the people of Oxfordshire. Section 75 agreements are in place with both County Councils, so that social workers are managed within the Trust's multidisciplinary mental health teams. The Trust was created in April 2011 by the Merger of Community Health Oxfordshire CHO and the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The Trust provides community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Swindon, Wiltshire and NE Somerset, and there is an inpatient adolescent unit in Swindon.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 33 days annual leave per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority
• Study leave allowances
• Free staff parking permits across OHFT sites
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Staff accommodation
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme and dedicated Health and Wellbeing Team

Job responsibilities

You will be expected to maintain their own programme of training and CPD accreditation with the support of their Associate Medical Director/Clinical Director and peer group.

The consultants will normally cross-cover for each other for annual leave, study leave and brief periods of sickness absence.

There is a daytime Monday-Friday cover rota (currently approximately 1 in 10) for the Whiteleaf Centre in the event of any issues with usual cross-cover arrangements.

The consultants take part the Buckinghamshire Adults of Working Age out-of-hours rota. This is a 1 in 17.6 non-resident on-call rota, with 3%, band A intensity. There is a junior doctor (StR1-3, GPVTS or FY2) on shift out of hours, and StR4-6 trainees take part in a supernumerary non-resident on-call rota (1:18 with 4-6 trainees).

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval
• Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medical, psychological or other studies or postgraduate teaching qualification

Training

• Higher specialist training in dual or general adult / older adult psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post
• CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview; OR CESR
• Sub-speciality or other specialist clinical training relevant to post in particular CRHT experience.

Clinical Experience

• Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in general adult/ Older adult psychiatry.
• Experience of close collaborative work with social care and other agencies
• Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group
• Development of close collaboration with primary care services
• Experience of early intervention in psychosis services and knowledge prodromal states for psychosis

Ability

• Ability to undertake full range of consultant responsibilities

Skills and Knowledge

• a) Leadership skills -Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
• b) Organisation and management skills - Ability to understand how organisations
• Commitment to active clinical governance
• Ability to promote effective team working
• Capacity to prioritise workload
• Active participation in clinical audit
• Commitment to interagency partnership working
• c) Communication skills - Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations. Good spoken and written English.
• d) Professional approach - Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of professionals.
• e) Personal skills - Must have interest in and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their carers.
• f) Teaching experience -Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees
• Application of research evidence to clinical practice
• Relevant experience of the administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
• Inter-agency partnership working and development
• Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
• Supervision of advanced level trainees
• Research experience and skills

Other requirements

• a) GMC registration - Full
• b) Transport - Mobility as required for the post
• c) Professional attributes - Meet specifications set out in GMC Guidance: Duties of doctor
• Driving licence and own transport

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearper annum pro-rata