Consultant Psychiatrist HMP Guys Marsh & HMP Erlestoke

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join their team. This role involves providing medical leadership in mental health services within prisons, focusing on trauma-informed care for a complex population. The Consultant will work flexibly across locations, leading a multidisciplinary team to enhance healthcare delivery. Applicants should possess a Consultant Psychiatrist qualification and strong skills in mental health assessment and leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing mental health in complex settings.
• Ability to work flexibly across multiple locations.
• Knowledge in trauma-informed care.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership to mental health in-reach teams.
• Conduct assessments and management of chronic psychotic illnesses.
• Deliver clinical governance and contribute to service development.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Leadership in healthcare

Teaching and training

Pharmacological input toward mental conditions

Working in a prison setting

Education

Consultant Psychiatrist qualification

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. This is a newly created post as a result of additional funding received to expand our healthcare services within our prison portfolio.

This position will require working across two category C prisons, HMP Erlestoke & HMP Guy’s Marsh. Both sites house sentenced prisoners and due to the stability of their populations, there is scope for some transformational work in service users lives within a team and prison setting structured to deliver this. The prison population is complex from a Mental Health perspective with SMI, neurodevelopmental disorders, substance misuse, trauma and personality disorder all significantly overrepresented in relation to the general population.

Key Duties

• 2 days at HMP Erlestoke
• 2 days at HMP Guys Marsh

The post holder will have 2.5 SPA allocated in their job plan for undertaking activities that support the professional role such as teaching, training, clinical management, clinical governance, service development and other relevant activities.

We are keen to accommodate flexibility and encourage interest from applicants with varied availability – we are open to working patterns, days, and number of PA’s (open to discussion of full-time).

The post holder will work across HMP Erlestoke and HMP Guy’s Marsh and provide medical leadership to the mental health in-reach teams at each site. There is significant input from psychology to work with trauma and personality disorders prevalent in the prison population and the teams work to a model of trauma informed care. The mental health services work alongside a dedicated substance misuse service provided by Change Grow Live. The role of the Consultant Psychiatrist is thus in particular to assessment and management of those conditions requiring pharmacological input, most commonly chronic psychotic illness, mood disorders and ADHD. The work takes place in the wider context of rehabilitative work delivered by the prison who deliver a variety of Offending Behaviour Programmes and interventions at these sites.

Much of the clinical work involves seeing patients within a healthcare department of the prison on an Outpatient basis. Patients are case worked by the In-reach team, analogous to a CMHT. Occasionally a prisoner may require transfer from prison to hospital under the Mental Health Act and if a prisoner becomes extremely unwell it may be necessary to assess them on the prison wing. The Consultant Psychiatrist will be expected to maintain s12(2) approval lead on transfers under the Mental Health Act.

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Purpose and Values

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Harneet Hundal
Job title: Clinical Director
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01322 297 152