Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: To be discussed with clinical lead
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7630201-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist (Psychological Medicine)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Applications are invited for this post in Psychological Medicine / Liaison Psychiatry at Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT. The post-holder will join the flagship Acute Trust Psychological Medicine Centre, which comprises 13 consultant psychiatrists and more than 40 psychologists.
Oxford University Hospitals offers a remarkable opportunity to excel in the field of Psychological Medicine. The award-winning Psychological Medicine Centre provides an innovative, fully-integrated approach to meeting psychological and psychiatric needs within medical and surgical specialties and across the lifespan. Our psychiatrists and psychologists work as members of medical and surgical teams. As well as seeing patients and families in the inpatient and outpatient settings, they support their colleagues to deliver holistic, biopsychosocial care for all the Trust’s patients.
Our unique setting provides an exceptional range of clinical exposure. The Trust provides the full spectrum of secondary and tertiary specialties and our consultant team boasts several members with subspecialty expertise including maternity, neuropsychiatry, psycho-oncology, ITU psychiatry, and child and adolescent liaison psychiatry.
Join us at Oxford University Hospitals Psychological Medicine Centre where your skills will thrive, your expertise will be honed, and your contribution to patient care will make a significant impact.
Main duties of the job
The specialty area for this post will be predominantly in Acute General Medicine services, but there is scope to work in other areas our service covers in parallel, and in due course other specialties too. The appointee will work alongside a large number of psychiatrists and psychologists, who are integrated into medical teams across the Trust.
This is a Trust appointment with a base at the John Radcliffe Hospital site.
The appointment is on a whole-time basis. However applications are welcome from those who wish to job share. Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will also be considered eligible to apply for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with the clinical lead and consultant colleagues.
This post would suit a psychiatrist with a CCT in adult psychiatry or a dual CCT in adult and old age psychiatry and experience of working in an acute hospital setting. An endorsement in liaison psychiatry is not essential.
Senior trainees in the final months of their training are eligible to apply.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
The Trust is committed to be an active partner in healthcare innovation, research and workforce education, with the aim of forming an effective bridge between research in basic science and in healthcare service provision, and the delivery of evidence-based, best practice care, turning today's discoveries into tomorrow's care. We also enjoy a close partnership with a world-class university, offering unparalleled research and teaching opportunities.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The John Radcliffe Hospital provides a full range of acute medical and surgical services including maternity, trauma, intensive care, cardiothoracic and clinical neurosciences services.
This post is predominantly focused on acute general medicine. The time spent seeing patients as part of the integrated team working and other activities will be agreed with the post-holder in their collaboratively produced job plan, which will in turn reflect the agreement with the relevant medical service. As an indicator of the direct patient care activity a consultant working in the medical team might expect to see on average 10 new and 20 follow patients each week.
As part of the consultant (emergency cover, daytime) rota , periodically the post-holder will also be expected to work at any of the Trust’s other locations: the Churchill Hospital which houses various specialties including renal and transplant, intensive care, haematology, oncology and palliative care services; the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a specialist orthopaedic hospital, which also houses rheumatology and rehabilitation; and the Horton General Hospital (HGH) in Banbury, a smaller associated District General Hospital. The psychiatric service to the emergency departments is provided by the local mental health trust.
The post-holder will be a consultant of the Acute Trust and will work as a member of one or more of the Trusts’ medical teams.
The post-holder will have the opportunity to collaborate with academic colleagues on relevant clinical research projects.
The specific medical team (s) the appointee works in, will be negotiated according to availability and the applicants’ preference.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- CCT in general adult psychiatry/ old age psychiatry or shortly to achieve CCT at time of interview (within 6 months) or CESR
- GMC with licence to practice
- Successfully completed training in general psychiatry/old age psychiatry including some recent experience in a medical setting
- Recognised Medical Degree
Desirable criteria
- CCST sub-specialty accreditation in liaison psychiatry or CCT in general adult psychiatry with equivalent to one year’s supervised training in liaison psychiatry
- Section 12 and Approved Clinician (or eligibility for Section 12 and Approved Clinician)
- Training in other relevant specialties
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant recent experience in adult and/or old age psychiatry
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in medical settings
- Previous experience of working at consultant level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to provide leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical team at the level required of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork.
- Able to work flexibly in response to the changing needs of services.
- Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
- Good written English.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with physicians, surgeons, nurses and other staff who have not had specific mental health training.
- Evidence of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training including medical students.
- Ability to provide training and education to staff who have not had specific mental health experience / training.
- Ability to provide training and education to staff who have not had specific mental health experience / training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.
- Evidence of understanding of clinical research and experience of audit and/or research.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of reflection on own practice.
- Training or experience in clinical management.
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS
- Evidence of significantly enhanced capability in a relevant area of psychiatry.
- Evidence of ability to effectively explain psychiatric illness and treatments to other professionals and patients.
- Evidence of skill in training and supervising (nonmental health trained) medical, nursing and other staff.
- Experience of effective participation in delivering clinical research.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Transport and availability: Must have access to appropriate transport to undertake duties linked to the post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Remy Flechais
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Psychiatry
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 223154
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