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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.
Consultant Psychiatrist - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team
Accepting applications until: 19-Nov-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 19-Nov-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Manzil Resource Centre
- Address
- Manzil Way
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX4 1XE
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £113,565 - £150,569 per annum | pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- General Adult and Older Adult Psychiatry
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
We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) based at Manzil Way in Oxford where you will have an active leadership role and medical responsibility for the diagnosis, management and treatment of adults of working age and older adults who are at risk of developing a mental health crisis.
With your expertise in Adult Psychiatry, you'll join our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to deliver patient care through home treatment enabling early discharge from inpatient care. You'll work closely with inpatient wards and community teams, including the Inpatient Social Work service and the Patient Flow Transformation lead.
We offer rewarding career development with protected SPA time as part of your job plan, encouraging you to take leadership courses to enhance your skills. We also offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 for external applicants (subject to eligibility criteria).
Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and on the Specialist Register or be within six months attaining their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or an equivalent approved indicator of training.
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This role provides senior medical input and clinical leadership to the Oxfordshire Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). You will have responsibility for your own patients as well as those patients seen by medical staff under your supervision.
The key components of the CRHTT service are:
1. Crisis response (emergency assessments and reviews)
2. Intensive home treatment characterized by the availability of multiple visits each day which are of a length and content to allow for specialist psycho-social intervention to be delivered
3. Gate-keeping admissions to psychiatric beds
4. Enabling early discharge from psychiatric admission
OHFT mental health urgent care works in close collaboration with other community mental health provision, Inpatient Services and wider system partners including Thames Valley Police, South Central Ambulance Service, the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership (OMHP) organisations (Response, Mind, Elmore, Connections and Restore), Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT and primary care services. CRHTT services are now widespread across the UK and provide a genuine alternative to hospital care and treatment.
Working for our organisation
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.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
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 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
The CRHT provides a range of psycho-social interventions to support people in crisis, or who are at risk of developing a mental health crisis, to receive care by means of the most collaborative and least restrictive interventions available. The service will cover adults of working age and older adults. The core team works from 7 am to midnight, 7 days a week and the team are currently transitioning to working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Consultants work Monday – Friday 9-5. Medical cover outside of CRHT doctor working hours is provided by duty and on-call doctor rotas.
A CRHTT service achieving full fidelity to the prescribed model provides a short-term (2 to 6 weeks duration) community focused intensive treatment and care package aimed at facilitating recovery at home for people in mental health crisis who may otherwise require inpatient care or can leave inpatient care early while still symptomatic in the acute phase of their illness.
The team provides a flexible, responsive, and prompt multidisciplinary service and includes assessment and diagnosis of mental health problems and provision of effective, brief, evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Services will be accessible and relevant, non-discriminatory, will respect cultural values, and aim to be user friendly for service users and carers/young carers. The service will aim to reduce the stigma attached to mental health care and ensure that care is delivered in the least restrictive and disruptive manner possible. Service users have the right to confidentiality and to be treated with dignity and respect.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medical degree
- Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post
- Full GMC registration
- Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
Desirable criteria
- MSc or higher degree
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Guidelines)
Training
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical work in CRHT at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post
- Experience of working at consultant level in an inpatient environment or in Older Adult services
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lola Martos
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07767 442831
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