Monday 18 March 2013

Dr Adam Osborne: Professional Experience



As a key team member of a multi-disciplinary Primary Care Mental Health Team located in the centre of London, Dr Adam Osborne faces some of the most extreme challenges in the treatment of mental health every day. Balanced between primary care and secondary care mental health services and being responsible for assessment and diagnosis as well as the continued treatment of patients from one of the most diverse and challenging communities in Britain, it essential that Dr Adam Osborne is fully equipped with all of the professional skills and confidence to handle every patiently effectively.

Holding qualifications from some of the UK’s most respected universities, as well as membership to an impressive array of professional medical institutes, Adam Osborne possesses all of the academic skills he may need. However, when dealing with an eclectic variety of challenging patients, academic understanding wouldn’t be enough for Dr Adam Osborne, that is why Dr Osborne spent years dedicating himself to earning practical and professional experience working directly with patients at a range of hospitals.

Dr Adam Osborne’s professional experience stretches for almost ten years at medical institutions across the country. Adam Osborne began his career in 2003 at the Hope Hospital with a PRHO GP composite post where he was responsible for dealing directly with patient’s general health needs.

From Hope Hospital he went onto a SHO general adult psychiatry position at the Park Royal Mental Health Centre in 2005. Dr Adam Osborne then very swiftly moved up again to a position as senior health officer in old age psychiatry and then SHO in general adult and rehabilitation psychiatry at the Trafford General Hospital from 2006 to 2007.

Adam Osborne then moved on to perform Fixed Term Speciality Training Appointments in which he practiced medicine whilst specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry at Booth’s Hall Children’s Hospital.

Dr Adam Osborne then spent four years working in the fascinating but highly challenging field of forensic psychiatry. During this period Dr Osborne worked in medium secure psychiatric units at the John Howard Centre and St Bernard’s Hospital.

From 2010, Dr Adam Osborne worked as Locum Speciality Doctor at Brixton Prison, where he became experienced in dealing with forensic patients with highly complex mental health care needs. In 2011 Adam Osborne then went onto practice as Locum Speciality Doctor in low secure forensic psychiatric services at Wolfson House.

Dr Adam Osborne returned to general adult psychiatry practice in 2012 and is now working for a primary care mental health team in London, bringing with him all his years of diverse and extensive psychiatric experience.