Specialty Doctor - Bromley MHLT

Job summary
Mental Health Liaison Team - Green Parks House (PRUH) Fixed term: 12 months | Full time | Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

We have an exciting opportunity for a SAS doctor to join our well-established, supportive Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) based at Green Parks House, delivering an all-age liaison psychiatry service to the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH).

This is a full-time, 12-month fixed-term post, offering an excellent opportunity to work within a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, providing high-quality mental health care within a busy acute hospital environment.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with Consultant Psychiatrists, junior doctors, and the wider multi-disciplinary team to provide timely psychiatric assessment and intervention for patients presenting with mental health needs within:

• The Emergency Department
• Acute medical inpatient wards

You will play a key role in supporting safe, effective clinical decision-making at the acute-mental health interface, ensuring patients receive the right care in the right setting.

What We Offer

• A supportive and experienced Liaison Psychiatry team with strong clinical and MDT leadership
• Exposure to a broad range of acute psychiatric presentations across the lifespan
• Opportunities to contribute to service development and quality improvement within liaison psychiatry
• A predictable weekday working pattern with no on-call requirements

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

Job responsibilities

• Provide medical and psychiatric input to the Mental Health Liaison Team for patients presenting to the Emergency Department and acute inpatient wards at PRUH.
• Undertake comprehensive psychiatric assessments, formulate treatment and risk management plans, and provide guidance on appropriate pharmacological interventions.
• Ensure a timely and effective medical response to referrals made to the Liaison Team, working in line with service priorities and national standards.
• Act as a Section 12 approved clinician, undertaking Mental Health Act assessments within Emergency Department and inpatient settings where required.
• Contribute to, and where appropriate lead, clinical decision making around discharge pathways, including:
  • Referral to Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams
  • Recommendation for admission to mental health inpatient services
• Work collaboratively with acute hospital staff and community mental health services to support safe transitions of care.

This role is ideal for an SAS doctor with SEC 12 approved seeking to further develop their experience in liaison psychiatry, acute mental health care, and multidisciplinary working within an acute hospital setting.

Oxleas and the SAS Doctor Charter
Our focus is on ensuring that the huge contribution of SAS Doctors is valued and their personal development prioritised. Here are a few of the ways Oxleas recognises this:

After joining Oxleas you will be welcomed by our SAS Tutor, with a personal meeting to discuss your development needs and how Oxleas can help.

You will have access to wide range of training and development days in Oxleas, and across the other South London NHS Trusts, which are specifically for SAS Doctors.

Anyone considering a CESR application will receive support from Oxleas and we are proud to have had successful applicants with several SAS Doctors who are currently in the process of applying.

Recently introduced in Oxleas is that all substantive SAS doctors with seven or more years' in the grade will be eligible for two additional days of annual leave per annum.

The SAS Charter sets out what support Staff and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors have available and what they can expect from their employers.

Person Specification
Registration
Essential

• GMC Registered

Qualifications
Essential

• MRCPsych

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).