Consultant Psychiatrist – Wantage Community Hospital: Sponsorship Available

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you ready to take the next step on your career and be our leading Consultant Psychiatrist for our Adult Mental Health Team based at Wantage Community Hospital?

This is a part time 8PA position where you will join an established Community Psychiatric Team serving adults of working age in Wantage. You’ll contribute to the continued development of integrated community mental health services.

This role offers scope to provide senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the multidisciplinary team, shape local pathways and contribute to service development across the interface between secondary care, primary care and community partners.

Deputy Team Managers, Service Manager and consultant colleagues. The role includes consultant responsibility for patients under the care of the team, while also offering the opportunity to influence safe, effective and recovery-focused community care across the wider service.

This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact to mental health care and patient recovery outcomes. We’re looking for applicants who have full GMC registration and are on the Specialist Register or within six months of CCT. You’ll need to be eligible for Section 12 Approval/Approved Clinician status or willing to apply for this once in post.

If you’re a ready for a challenge and want to work for one of the UK’s leading mental health Trusts, we would be delighted to receive your application.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide senior clinical leadership and expert psychiatric input to the team, including complex case formulation, risk assessment and decision-making in high-risk or diagnostically challenging presentations.
  • Provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to AMHT. You will have responsibility for those patients seen by yourself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly under your supervision.
  • Act as a senior clinical decision-maker within MDT forums and provide specialist psychiatric advice across the service, supporting recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and evidence-based care.
  • Work alongside the whole AMHT team managers, service manager and the other consultant psychiatrists in the service to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.
  • Provide direct clinical supervision and line management to the trainees and speciality doctor and any senior trainee placed with the team. This will include 1 hour per week psychiatry supervision for each trainee in an accredited training post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Medical degree
  • Fully registered with the General Medical Council
  • Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
  • Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act)/ Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.

Desirable

  • MSc or higher degree
  • Additional clinical qualifications
  • Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical work in specialty at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years
  • Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
  • Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
  • Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry

Desirable

  • Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
  • Experience of working at consultant level in an inpatient environment

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience in teaching resident doctors
  • Good teaching and communication skills
  • Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
  • Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals

Desirable

  • Medical education qualification

Research and Audit

Essential

  • Audit or other quality improvement experience

Desirable

  • Experience of grant-funded project work

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).

Closing Date: 31 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.