Consultant Psychiatrist - Learning Disability

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sidcup; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides community and hospital mental health and learning disability services across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley, with specialist forensic and challenging behaviour care for several local prisons. The trust also delivers adult and child health services in the community and runs a broad range of NHS services for South-East London and prisoners across England.

The organisation is recognised for staff experience, offering a supportive work environment and

Job description

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust was formed in April 1995 and is a provider of Community and Hospital Mental Health and Learning Disability

Services for Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. It is a specialist provider of Forensic and Challenging Behaviour services for Bexley, Greenwich,

Lewisham, North Southwark, Bromley and Kent Prisons. Since 2010,

Oxleas also provides a range of physical health services to adults and

children in the community in the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. These range from health visitors and community midwives working with the very young, to district nurses and therapists meeting the physical health needs of older people.

Greenwich ALD – The post holder will be part of the Mental Health and Challenging Behaviour Team and will undertake clinical assessments of

patients with mental health and contribute to care plans accordingly.

They will conduct a minimum of 4 Mental Health out-patient clinics per week. You will have a caseload of between 80 and 100 Mental Health

(including Challenging Behaviour and Dementia). Diagnoses will include psychosis, anxiety, OCD, affective disorders, and dementia, autism,

ADHD etc.

The ALD service - Provides specialist health care and services for people over the age of 18 with learning disabilities living in Greenwich,

Bromley, and Bexley boroughs. The teams aim to provide high quality, evidence-based assessment, monitoring and intervention to support people with learning disabilities to become and stay well, independent and to live a meaningful life. Service users are empowered to be active participants in their own care and in service development.

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big

employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar

trusts.

“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to

improve people’s lives.”

Ify Okocha

Chief Executive

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Manchester Job title: Associate Director Email address: [e-mail]