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Job overview

Applications are welcome from Specialist Psychiatrist Doctors with 6+ years in the grade to meet the minimum criteria of the post. 

This post attracts a Recruitment and Retention Premium of £1,000 pcm.

The post holder is expected to be Section 12 registered and appointed to a full-time, 10 PA role, providing cover for HMP Elmley mental health services. Following appointment there will be a meeting at no later than three months with the Clinical Director or Kent Prison Lead to review and revise the job plan and objectives of the post holder and agree the formal job plan.  The job plan will be reviewed at least annually thereafter.

The overall split of the programmed activities is 8 to be devoted to direct clinical care and 2 to Supporting Professional Activities.  The timetable is indicative only and will be reviewed.  The SPA time available will allow achieving appraisal and revalidation requirements for the GMC and meeting PDP objective. There are no out of hours on-call associated with this post. 

Main duties of the job

Clinical work – HMP Elmley  (8 PA DCC)

• assessing prisoners in the house-blocks and in Healthcare
• liaising with services outside the prison to arrange CPAs, aftercare plans or transfers to hospital
• attending the inpatient unit to manage psychiatric cases. The inpatient unit has 29 beds, of which about 70% have mental-health related difficulties
• clinical cover to HMP Stanford Hill, a D-category prison adjacent to Elmley with a very small number of patients mainly managed by mental health practitioners.
• quality improvement initiatives, to be agreed with multidisciplinary colleagues and the service managers.

Take a lead in the management of complex cases and provide clinical leadership of team.

Quality improvement/Research/Teaching- (2 SPA)

• These sessions can be used flexibly and the post holder can base themselves remotely (Base of their choice) unless required to be on site for data collection or clinical activities associated with this.
• The activities could include clinical audits, research projects, service improvement or other tasks associated with clinical governance
• The research or quality improvement activity may be part of further education such as masters or PhD or other postgraduate qualifications

       The postholder would be encouraged to undertake the AC status course.

Working for our organisation

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. Oxleas won Trust Of The Year 2024 at the prestigious Health Service Journal Awards. 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.”