Specialty Doctor - Community Learning Disability Team - City & South

Are you a psychiatrist looking for a rewarding community role where you can make a genuine difference to the lives of adults with learning disabilities? We are recruiting for a part-time Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities to join our City and South Oxfordshire Learning Disability Service based at our Lambourn site in Abingdon and Slade Site in Oxford. You will work closely with an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist and a highly skilled multidisciplinary team including nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapy colleagues. The role offers a varied and fulfilling caseload, supporting adults with learning disabilities who may also experience mental illness, autism or epilepsy, and working in partnership with families, carers, primary care and social services. Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council and completed at least four years' full-time postgraduate training with two years in a relevant specialty, along with a genuine commitment to compassionate, collaborative care. Join us and help shape high-quality community mental health care for adults with learning disabilities at one of the UK's leading mental health Trusts.

Asses and treat out-patients with a learning disability and/or co-morbid mental illness, autistic spectrum disorders or epilepsy. You will have responsibility for the patients you see, as well as for those patients seen by medical staff whom you directly supervise.