Specialty Doctor in Adult Psychiatry - Community Mental Health


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£63,696 - £102,689
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Didcot, OX11 0AF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	14 Aug 2026
Closing date:	31 Aug 2026

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Summary

Adult Mental Health Teams (AMHTs)There are 3 AMHTs across Oxfordshire. They are North and West (bases in Banbury and Witney), Oxford City and North East (bases in Oxford City and Bicester), and South (bases in Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage and Wallingford in Oxfordshire), with satellite clinics based throughout the county in market towns. AMHTs in the North and West, and the South provide care 7 days per week, 7am to 9pm but the City is Monday to Friday 9am to 5 pm due to additional care available from a Crisis team. Consultants work across the week, covering 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and provide senior leadership to the team alongside the Operational Manager and non-medical Clinical Lead of each team. Staff within the AMHTs work around Consultants and catchment areas that correspond as much as possible to specific geographical areas and GP surgeries. This enables maximum familiarity with these patients and better links with the corresponding GPs in their Primary Care Networks (PCN). The AMHTs work closely with primary care, from where they receive most of their referrals. Our new Primary Care Hubs receive most routine referrals and AMHTs triage the remainder of referral and allocate patients for assessments, following which, patients may be taken on by members of the AMHT for acute or longer-term treatment or signposted to other services or agencies as appropriate. To enhance the current community Mental Health pathway our service has developed Primary Care Mental Health Teams (PCMHTs) in the last 18 months in line with the Community Mental Health Framework and Long Term Plan for MH. The aim is for care to be closer to home. This Framework locates community mental health services in the center of the community, as the central pillar of mental health care, allowing all other services in the mental health care system to function more effectively, it also challenges MH providers to make it easier for the public to access MH advice and support. Alongside this the Health on the High Street agenda which puts health service provision on the high street in vacant properties to increase accessibility of these services. Alongside the PCMHT the offer includes a single point of access to other services which are important to maintain mental health housing, benefits, drug & Alcohol services, CAB, health and wellbeing services so these services could run clinics from the Hubs making these a one stop shop. The PCMHTs are based within the Keystone Hubs and will have space to provide 1:1 and group interventions, as well as having capacity to support any self-referrals walking into the Hubs. Our aim for the Hubs is that they become a welcoming and non-stigmatised venue on the high street, used by the public, community groups and those in need of MH support.

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