Consultant Psychiatrist, General Adult Psychiatry, Phoenix ward

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., A. Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to Phoenix ward. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder.
B. Work alongside the ward managers, modern matrons and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
C. Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the speciality doctors and any trainees placed with the team. This will include 1 hour per week psychiatry supervision for each trainee in an accredited training post. In addition, clinical supervision needs to be available and ensured daily for medical trainees and a pro rata equivalent level of supervision needs to be provided for speciality doctors.
D. Provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process and weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds. Family meetings, professionals' meetings, further ad hoc patient reviews and seclusion reviews are expected as part of this role. The consultant will be expected to adhere to good clinical practice based on research evidence.
E. The post holder will contribute to referral management with the modern matron, ward manager and senior nurses. The post holder will jointly review nursing care plans with senior nursing staff, attend daily handover meetings, fortnightly business meeting, fortnightly learning from incidents meeting and weekly reflective practice meeting. They will work closely with the Patient Flow Team and Crisis and Home Treatment Team of the trust.
F. Expected to be eligible for Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act. The Trust will support obtaining Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status if required. Health based place of safety assessments on the two Littlemore site are a core part of the job.
G. The post holder will fulfil the requirements for Mental Health Act work for patients admitted to Ashurst ward. This specifically relates to the preparation of reports for Tribunals and Managers meetings, as the responsibility devolves to the Consultant as the Responsible Clinician on admission. Appropriate transfer processes should be adhered to for accepting and discharging patients to Ashurst ward under the MHA act and MHA Part IV requirements should be fulfilled.
H. Provide timely written correspondence to relevant professionals, including MHA Tribunal reports documenting assessments, on-going management, progress, and eventual discharge using Trust IT and clinical records system - training will be provided where needed.
I. Work collaboratively with other agencies, in particular liaison with staff from other teams to manage smooth and timely transfer into and out of the unit. The teams most involved with this will be the Adult Mental Health Teams, Acute Male Wards- Vaughan Thomas and Phoenix, Patient Flow Team and Crisis and Home Treatment Team.
J. Contribute to developing and delivering improved clinical services as outlined in the National Service Framework for Mental Health, maintaining AIMS accreditation and good rating from CQC.
K. Provide Consultant cross-cover to Phoenix Ward Consultant regularly, and other wards occasionally for for annual leave, study leave, unplanned leave, and brief periods of sickness absence.
L. Participate in the Oxfordshire Adult on-call consultant Rota (Currently approximately 1 in 26 Oxfordshire, category A, banded at 3%). There are usually two specialist registrars - ST4 to ST6 trainees, on call, who take first line responsibility for referrals from the community. The ST4 or ST6 trainees also provide second line support to ST1 to ST3 trainees on shift duty at the main hospital sites.
M. Participate in a no Fixed Abode Rota (NFA) which all consultants are rostered on for newly presented patients who have no fixed address in Oxfordshire but require allocation to a team.

A full-time 10 PA post is available on Phoenix Ward.
Phoenix ward is located in Littlemore Hospital, Sandford Lane, Oxford, OX4 4TN. It is a male, single-sex ward for adults of working age (AWA) population of Oxfordshire.
There are approximately 7 male admissions per week in 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., This is an exciting time to join Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and become part of the Oxfordshire adult service.
If you relish a challenge, are enthusiastic about improving mental health of patients and want to join a friendly and ambitious service which is modernising and expanding at pace, then OHFT has all the right ingredients.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
+ Excellent opportunities for career progression
+ 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 35 days with continuous service
+ Study leave allowances
+ NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
+ Staff accommodation
+ Competitive pension scheme
+ Lease car scheme
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme and dedicated Health and Wellbeing Team
We particularly welcome applications from clinicians who would like to negotiate dedicated PAs for clinical leadership, research, training or other areas of special interest.
The trust offers a generous relocation package and works hard to accommodate flexible working patterns for staff. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised, then please get in touch to discuss this in more detail
We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record of CPD. There are good links with Oxford University, with opportunities for teaching, research and offering placements to trainees.