Consultant Psychiatrist

Autism Oxford UK Limited

Oxford

£45,838 - £53,218 a year - Part-time

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£45,838 - £53,218 a year

Job type

Part-time

Location

Oxford

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Company description

Our mission is to spread awareness of the realities of life on the autism spectrum and support the development of autism services, especially those provided by Autistic professionals. We do this through our blended team of peer support practitioners, nurses, speech and language, and occupational therapists. Using lived experience alongside trained professionals' knowledge is a powerful source of support!

We offer training and service development support, to ensure autistic people's needs are understood and adjustments are made to mainstream settings. We are great supporters of the Paula McGowan campaign to make autism awareness mandatory for all health and social care settings!

We also offer autism assessments, support, and interventions to all ages and their support networks. The blend of our multi-disciplinary team ensures we are able to support various needs.

Job Description

Position:

Consultant Psychiatrist

Employment status:

Salaried

Hours:

As and when to meet service demand. *To be mutually agreed

Values

Our values guide all of what we do and shape the direction of our service offer. All our work is grounded in the belief that everyone should be able to lead the life they choose.

Our approach is a holistic one and rests firmly on a strengths-based approach. We are committed to supporting better understanding and myth-busting associated with these terms through the power of lived experience and expertise.

Current Service Offer

Autism Oxford UK currently offers commissioned and privately funded training, alongside our clinical and assessment services. The team is made up of the following professionals

· Nursing

· Peer Support Practitioners

· Psychologists

· Speech and Language Therapists

· Occupational Therapists

· Autism Practitioners

· SEN consultant

· Specialist teacher

· Administrators

Each team member is equally valued for their expertise, knowledge, and experiences and working together to meet autistic people and family needs of all ages.

Our services operate both remotely (using teams and zoom) or face to face at our base in Abingdon. Team members work in a flexible manner working the hours and days that fit around their current commitments and life demands.

Job Summary

Due to the expansion of our services and an increased stream of referrals, we would like a personal, enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to join our team. The position is on a casual basis while the service continues to expand, and you will have an opportunity to work hours that fit around your current commitments. Our services cover diagnostic assessment of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and in due course dyspraxia. We are striving to become the leading centre for neurodiversity, covering all ages.

The purpose of your role is to work as an equal member of the multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical oversight and support with a diagnostic assessment, medication initiation and review, and other direct clinical support.

You will support our peer support practitioners to share their unique insight into what the world is like from an autistic person's perspective to improve outcomes for all (including neurotypicals). We believe that to ensure we have a truly enriched diverse workforce we need to work collaboratively and be keen to employ a neurodiverse workforce.

You will have experience in supporting the autism assessment process and are keen to work towards completing your ADOS and ADI-R training, as well as having extensive experience of completing ADHD assessments. As part of our team, you will complete these assessments as Multi-Disciplinary Team and/or provide clinical sign-off to assessments through chairing Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and clinical review.

You will also have sound knowledge of the equality act and what is meant by a reasonable adjustment to support better access to health care.

You will exercise professional accountability and responsibility using skills, knowledge, and expertise in changing environments, across boundaries.

You will maintain a positive and open attitude towards service development.

You will be responsible to ensure you are fully compliant with all mandatory training and for organising your own DBS check. (Evidence will need to be provided to us).

Key Responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Skills:

You will be required to liaise with other agencies and health professionals and provide specialist guidance/advice when appropriate.

· You will have excellent ability to build rapport with autistic adults and other parents/ carers.

· You will be required to help overcome barriers to understanding, e.g. people who have a physical impairment, mental health condition, or learning disabilities.

· You will be required to exchange information with others using persuasion, reassurance, tact, and empathy.

· To maintain confidentiality at all times.

Analytical and Judgmental Skills

· The ability to make judgments on problems requiring further support and escalate within the company.

· To report any incidents, accidents, or untoward occurrences to management.

· You will be required to provide support to the leadership team around service development internally and externally.

· You will be required to support with the assessment of challenging behaviour and the implementation of strategies.

Person-centered Care

· You will be required to assist autistic individuals and their family/carers in enabling them to develop skills that will help them manage their condition(s) developing care plans and strategies that help and support the individual.

· You will be required to evaluate and consider the individual's physical and mental health needs; this may include undertaking practical skills under the guidance of a nurse.

· You will be required to develop a working knowledge of physical health conditions that can cause contra-indications for autistic individuals, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

· To be a champion or link practitioner for specialist interests (carers, Safeguarding, etc.).

· You will be required to be aware of and follow the NICE guidelines when planning and implementing interventions with the MDT. Assessing the need for alternative therapeutic interventions and providing this intervention.

· Actively participate, provide regular supervision, and support personal development plans.

· To comply with Health and Safety at work Act 1974 and report any hazards to management.

· Work with people who are supported under the framework of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007). Offering referral to advocacy and IMCA where appropriate.

Freedom to Act

You will have a clearly defined understanding of policies and procedures. You will use your own initiative and seek guidance when required. The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the post holder.

Special Conditions

As a member of the team, you have:

· Legal duties and responsibilities under Health & Safety legislation, plus a general duty to work safely and not to put others at risk i.e. colleagues, people we support, visitors, as a result of any activity or omission at work.

· A duty to report any practice that you consider compromises standards of risk and health & safety.

All staff working under the Autism Oxford UK ‘umbrella’; within all Environments that have contact with autistic individuals, their families, or systems to support them have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, adults, and vulnerable families. As a member of staff, you must:

· All staff that has contact with children, vulnerable adults, autistic individuals, and their families must familiarise themselves and be aware of their responsibilities and adhere to Local Safeguarding Children’s Board, Local Safeguarding Adult Board.

· We place great emphasis on the need for the strictest confidentiality in respect of personal data - both that of people accessing our services and staff. All information about people will always be treated in the strictest confidence. Breaches of confidentiality will be investigated and may lead to disciplinary action being taken.

· We view our responsibility under the Data Protection Act and the Caldicott Principles as central to all activities that are carried out in its name. Staff are therefore expected to acquaint themselves with the principles of Information Governance. Promoting Equality and Reducing Inequalities.

· To understand and uphold organisational principles on the everyday promotion of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

· To create an inclusive working environment that values a variety of ideas, experiences, and practices, where differences are respected and celebrated for the benefit of ourselves, and the communities we serve.

Behaviour

As a member of the team, we expect your behaviours to be consistent with our values at all times, we expect you to: Support the aims and vision and to;

· Act with honesty and integrity always.

· Be a positive ambassador for the organisation, autistic people, and the power of working collaboratively together.

· Demonstrate high standards of personal conduct.

· Value and respect colleagues, other members of staff, and people with support.

· Work with others to develop and improve our services.

· Uphold the out commitment to equality and diversity.

· Take personal responsibility for your words, deed and actions and the quality of the service you deliver

Person Specification

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications: