Acute Adult In-Patient Ward Specialty Doctors

The specialty doctor post was created to support the development of the inpatient psychiatric service to adults of working age in Oxfordshire. The post is currently vacant following the existing post holder moving to take up a training post., 1. Day-to-day management of the inpatients on the wards. This will include contribution to ward-rounds (including typing contemporaneous clinical notes into the electronic patient records), CPA review, discharge planning meetings, and Mental Health Act managers or tribunal hearings. This will be under the clinical supervision of the dedicated inpatient consultants from the team. Clinical Supervision will rotate between the consultants as agreed.
2. Liaison with the Community Mental Health team to ensure co-ordinated clinical care of patients.
3. Support the assessment and management of patients brought to the 2 Health Based Places of Safety on Phoenix ward and Ashurst ward. This is an essential component of the job.
4. Providing timely written correspondence to relevant professionals documenting assessments, ongoing management, progress, and discharge summaries using Trust IT and clinical records system - training will be provided where needed.
5. Work collaboratively with other agencies, liaison with staff from other teams to manage smooth and timely transfer into and out of the unit. The teams most commonly involved with this will be the Adult Community Mental Health Teams, and Ashurst Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.
6. Active commitment to delivering the Trust's clinical governance agenda. Wards will lead their own governance agenda including audit, quality, patient experience, learning from incidents, patient safety initiatives and interrogation of data. The senior leadership team comprising of matron, consultant and ward manager will link with division both identifying areas of concern and feeding back actions.
7. Contribution to developing and delivering improved clinical services.
8. The post holder 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.
9. The post holder will normally cross-cover with specialty doctor and trainees for Phoenix Ward for annual leave, study leave and brief periods of sickness absence. Occasional cover may be required for Allen, Wintle and Vaughan Thomas wards.
10. Post holder will administer ECT on a rota with the other specialty doctors and trainees under exceptional circumstances. ECT is supervised by a consultant and training will be given if ad hoc input is required.

Ashurst ward is located in Littlemore Hospital, Sandford Lane, Oxford, OX4 4TN. It is primarily a male, single-sex psychiatric intensive care unit for adults of working age (AWA) population of Oxfordshire.
Inpatients are treated by a multidisciplinary team led by a consultant and the expectation is that there is shared responsibility for clinical management at an appropriate level. All inpatients have a care coordinator (either existing or allocated) and it is expected that the CCO is actively involved in inpatient care, thereby forming a link to AMHTs.
The post-holder will provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team on the ward along with the ward manager and modern matron and will assume consultant responsibility for patients admitted to the ward.
Wintle ward, based at the Warneford Hospital, Headington, Oxford, has 16 beds. It is a female, single-sex ward for the working age population of Oxfordshire.
Medical staff provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team on the ward along with the ward manager and modern matron.

The specialty doctor posts were created to support the development of the inpatient psychiatric service to adults of working age in Oxfordshire. The post is being offered on a fixed term contract for a year from February 2025 as the current SAS doctor will be on maternity leave.

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East 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"
At Oxford Health 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
+ 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 35 days with continuous service
+ 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 may apply)
+ Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team