Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Job summary

Forensic Inpatient Team: Heath Ward

Heath Clinic is a 16 bedded Assertive Rehabilitation Medium Secure Unit for Men with complex care needs and multiple comorbidities. The main aim of the service is to provide an innovative model of care that emphasis on addressing individual psychosocial needs, vocational opportunities and skills acquisition. The primary objective of the service is to secure timely discharge for patients who have already reached long lengths of stay to date, by offering a more intensive needs based approach and close working with Support Plus community service.

The team base would be the Bracton Centre, which is the Medium Secure Unit for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The service forms part of the ARP (rehabilitation) pathway of the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership: Secure services, which is now a Provider Collaborative.

Heath Clinic has a multi-disciplinary team containing a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, non-medical Responsible Clinician, ST4/ST6 trainee, core trainee post, social worker, occupational therapist, psychologist and psychology trainees and senior nurses and nursing at all levels.

Main duties of the job

This is a replacement full-time post.

The job plan will be 7.5 PAs DCC and 2.5 SPAs, with job planning details agreed following discussions with Clinical Director and Medical Lead, Dr Harneet Hundal.

The Consultant will provide highly specialised clinical care within the inpatient service, function independently and within a clinical team, providing expert advice to ensure the needs of the patient are met by leading, challenging and changing practice within the clinical setting.

Maintain approval to act in the role of Responsible Clinician, as defined in the Mental Health Act 1983 revision 2007, and hold accountability for the delivery of care and clinical decisions made.

Provide safe and effective RC cover as defined by the role and service needs.

Undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients to incorporate psychiatric, physiological, psychological and pharmacological considerations, making multifaceted complex clinical decisions regarding patient management and clinical outcomes, including, discharging patients from the service when treatment is complete/optimum outcome is achieved.

The post holder will lead quality improvement activities, service evaluation and research projects and be responsible for disseminating evidence into clinical practice.

About us

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.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised 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.

"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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracton Centre

Dartford

DA2 7AF

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracton Centre

Dartford

DA2 7AF

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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