Job Summary
Working with the community mental health team
Average day:
- New assessment of 1-2 patients
- 1 1/2 hour per patient for new assessments which are joint with other members of the MDT (CPN/OT/SW)
- Discuss plan with the assessment team and consultants
- Follow up appointments
- Admin
Location(s)
The Elms Centre, Banbury (on the Horton General Hospital site).
Top tips for extra opportunities (e.g. teaching / skills )
Opportunities for audit, teaching medical students and presenting papers
Opportunities to attend:
- Luther Street GP (GP for homeless patients)
- The complex needs service
- MIND
- Talking space (IAPT)
- MHA assessments
Highlights
- Supportive consultants
- Working with the community psychiatric nurses, OTs and social workers
- Nice environment to work in
- Great for learning about risk assessment
- Developing confidence in prescribing psychiatric medications
- Weekly trainee-led supervision with consultant – a great opportunity to discuss cases or learn more about a topic of your choosing
Challenges
- Documentation for assessments is often detailed and lengthy
- Workload can fluctuate; sometimes it feels very quiet and other times very busy
The details are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change.