Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist - City and North East Adult Mental Health Team
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Part-time Consultant Psychiatrist - Oxford City and North East Adult Community Mental Health Team
We are recruiting for a part-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Oxford City and North East Adult Community Mental Health Team.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established Community Psychiatric Team serving adults of working age. You'll provide senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the multidisciplinary team, working closely with the Team Manager, Deputy Team Managers, Service Manager, and consultant colleagues.
Role Overview
The role is based within Oak Team, which serves adults aged 18 to 65 across a primarily urban catchment area, with some rural communities, and a population of approximately 78,000. The team receives around 450 referrals per year. You'll be working to improve outcomes for adults presenting with significant clinical complexity, including severe and enduring mental illness, complex risk presentations, and needs requiring coordinated multidisciplinary input.
About Oxford Health
Oxford Health is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading mental health trusts, with a strong reputation for clinical excellence, innovation, research, and medical leadership. We are committed to supporting our consultants through flexible working, high-quality professional development, research opportunities, and a strong focus on wellbeing.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the team, including complex case formulation, risk assessment, and decision-making in high-risk or diagnostically challenging presentations.
- Act as a senior clinical decision-maker within MDT forums and provide specialist psychiatric advice across the service, supporting recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and evidence-based care.
- Work alongside the whole AMHT team managers, service manager, and the other consultant psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
- Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the trainees and specialty doctor and any senior trainee 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 specialty doctors.
- 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.
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Benefits
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
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
- 33 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 apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Dr Vivek Khosla
- Job title: Associate Medical Director
- Email address: Vivek.Khosla@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01865 902907
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