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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Psychiatry, Phoenix ward
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Phoenix Adult Male Ward
- Address
- Littlemore Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX44XN
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum/ pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- General Adult Psychiatry - In-Patient
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 for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist seeking an opportunity within an inpatient ward? Phoenix ward is an 18-bedded ward for adults of working age (AWA) population of Oxfordshire.
This vacancy has 12 PAs therefore would be suitable for two Consultants to do at least 6 PAs each and therefore open to full-time or part-time applications.
Internal applications to be kindly received by 20th October 2025
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.
What we offer:
- £15,000 recruitment bonus *please note this is for external candidates and terms apply*
- Relocation allowance up to £8,000 to eligible successful candidate
For more information on this opportunity please contact Dr Smita Pandit, Associate Medical Director.
*Please note this job description has been sent to the college for approval*
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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.
Working for our organisation
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 per annum/pro-rata increasing to 35 days after seven years seniority
• 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the person specification and the job description for a detailed overview of the role and responsibilities
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- 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.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Guidelines)
- Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act) Approval
- Approved Clinician status or Eligibility
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medical, psychology, or other studies
Training
Essential criteria
- Higher specialist training in psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post.
- CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
Desirable criteria
- Sub-speciality or other specialist clinical training relevant to post such as working in in-patient and PICU settings as a specialist trainee or Consultant.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in this specialty.
- Experience of close collaborative work with social care and other agencies.
Desirable criteria
- Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group
- Development of close collaboration with primary care services
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions.
- Commitment to active clinical governance.
- Ability to promote effective team working.
- Capacity to prioritise workload.
- Active participation in clinical audit.
- Commitment to interagency partnership working.
- Good spoken and written English.
- Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of professionals.
- Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees.
- Application of research evidence to clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience of the administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
- Inter-agency partnership working and development.
- Consultant Appraiser
- Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- Supervision of advanced level trainees
- Research experience and skills
GMC
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
- Meets specifications set out in GMC guidance: duty of doctor
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Register
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Smita Pandit
- Job title
- Associate Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795800944
- Additional information
Alternatively, please call 01865 904191 option 3
No longer accepting applications
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