Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist HMP Rochester, Cookham Wood, and Maidstone
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Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist based at Kent Prisons In-Reach Teams
The post holder will provide Consultant leadership for the In-Reach teams at:
- HMP Rochester with 4PAs DCC
- HMP Cookham Wood 2PAs DCC
- HMP Maidstone 2PAs DCC
The post holder will be eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register in Forensic Psychiatry or General Adult Psychiatry.
Responsibilities
In addition to providing clinical care, the post holder would be expected to contribute to an aspect of quality assurance. 2 SPAs will be allocated in the job plan for undertaking activities that support the professional role such as:
- Teaching
- Training
- Clinical management
- Clinical governance
- Service development
- Research
- Other relevant activities
The post includes an interesting and varied range of clinical responsibilities for prisoners with a wide range of clinical conditions, including:
- Acute and chronic mental illness
- Personality disorder
- ADHD
The in-reach team holds a caseload and within this caseload, a number of patients would be subject to CPA management. Patients are generally seen within the outpatient clinics at each site, although at times patients may need to be seen on the wing in an emergency. All referrals are triaged by the In-Reach Team. At HMP Rochester, the psychiatrist completes a segregation round once a week. Whilst there is flexibility in allocation of individual responsibilities, the overarching model is one of integrated working across the mental health multidisciplinary teams.
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The post holder would be provided with training in Rio and System One, which is used by healthcare in prison within the Trust.
About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognized 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.
Oxleas recruitment and retention strategy includes offering all Consultants and SAS doctors regular formal structured mentoring by professionally trained mentors.
“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
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Harneet Hundal
- Job title: Clinical Director
- Email address: h.hundal@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01322 297 152
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