Consultant Psychiatrist – Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team: Sponsorship Available

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join ourCrisis 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.

Could this be the next step in your career? Come and join one of the UK’s leading mental health Trusts at the forefront of research infrastructure and make a real difference to people’s lives.

Main duties of the job

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • Experience of clinical work in CRHT at SpR, SAS/Specialist grade or consultant level within the last 3 years

Desirable

  • Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Excellent clinical skills in relevant psychiatric specialty

Desirable

  • 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

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: 19 November 2026

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