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
Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist interested in being a part of the delivery and further development of ground-breaking Mental Health Services?
The Trust is seeking to recruit to a new Community Adult of Working Age Consultant post based in Wantage, that is part of the well-established South Oxon Adults Community Mental Health Team.
You will work alongside a dynamic multidisciplinary team made up of a variety of individuals including psychiatrists, psychologists, community psychiatric nurses, approved social workers, occupational therapists and support workers, providing the individual with a whole range of support.
The team aim to support people to live actively and fully by connecting with the GPs, other service users, community services, partnership organisations, family and carers.
Main duties of the job
We work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a strong and supportive clinical network of Consultants underpinned by a culture of compassionate leadership and are committed to both staff development and job enrichment.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as good by the CQC. The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is an exciting partnership that formally brings together six local mental health organizations from the NHS and the charity sector: Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire Mind, Response and Restore.
The aim is to work much more closely with each other and with people who have mental health problems, their carers and families to make it easier for people to get the best possible patient focused support when they need it.
We have a strong tradition as a leading Trust for teaching, training and research, with close links to both the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University.
We are offering unique opportunities to combine leadership, management, clinical/educational supervision and safeguarding lead roles with clinical duties, and we support flexible working practices.
The Trust can offer a generous relocation package and a welcome incentive is available for specific roles within our directorates, in addition to the annual leave, study leave, pension and wellbeing support that is available.
To find out how our unique reward and benefits package can be adapted to suit you, please get in touch.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will work in the team that covers Wantage and Faringdon (W+F) and their surrounding areas.
The Wantage and Faringdon Team will cover a primarily urban ( with some rural) 18 to 65 age group population of 27,518.
For a detailed list of the roles and responsibilities for this post, please see the attached job description.
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Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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