Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Integrated Care System; Merthyr Tydfil; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic opportunity exists for a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board to join a supportive team providing essential mental health services. Candidates will manage complex cases, oversee junior staff, and collaborate with various healthcare professionals. This role calls for a qualified psychiatrist to drive effective patient care while fostering a collaborative environment within the health board.

Qualifications

• Experience in psychiatry with comprehensive training.
• Higher training experience in psychiatry recognized.
• Competence in managing complex cases is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to a Liaison Mental Health team.
• Manage and supervise junior medical staff as per regulations.
• Liaise and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external organizations.

Skills

Competence in current assessment and treatment

Competence in risk assessment and management

Understanding of relevant clinical, legal and policy issues

Education

Full GMC Registration

M.R.C.Psych or equivalent

S.12(2) approval

Approved Clinician approval

On Specialist Register for Psychiatry

Job description

Go back Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

The closing date is 17 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has risen to join the fantastic Liaison Psychiatry Medical Team.

This is a replacement Consultant post based in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board for Liaison Services and you will be joining colleagues in a very dynamic and forward looking Directorate, with supportive colleagues and a culture where development and progression is embedded. The Post holder will be managerially responsible to Dr Tim Chan, Clinical Director, OAMHS. The Post holder will be required to liaise with Clinicians as and when necessary. Further the Post holder will be expected work at other UHB Sites if required.

The superb team work in a close working nature with other colleagues and this makes the Cwm Taf Morgannwg mental Health Liaison team stand out- A team that anyone would be proud to work with!

Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Interview date: September 10th 2025

Main duties of the job

• Implementation of the Mental Health Act and associated duties.
• Liaison and collaboration with colleagues from the Directorate and beyond - including other organisations, Local Authorities and the third sector.
• Supervision of team members as appropriate, taking a full part in referral handling and team meetings.
• Taking on much of the clinical leadership of the team, working closely with other senior professionals including Mental Health Liaison Practitioners.
• The management of complex cases, providing leadership and specialist advice to colleagues across the team.
• Triaging new referrals and sign posting to most appropriate person to undertake initial assessment.
• Assessment, diagnosis and formulation of management plans for patients

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

• To provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary Liaison Mental health team.
• To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Health Boards personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.

Full Details are in the attached Job Description and Person specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oFull GMC Registration
• oM.R.C.Psych. or equivalent
• oS.12(2) approval
• oApproved Clinician approval.
• oOn Specialist Register for Psychiatry or be within six months of the anticipated CCT/CESR date if progress has been satisfactory and it is anticipated that the outcome of the final ARCP will recommend that training will be completed by the time the recommended CCT/CESR date is reached
• oWelsh Approved Clinician approval.

Skills

• oCompetence in current assessment and treatment
• oCompetence in risk assessment and management
• oUnderstanding of relevant clinical, legal and policy issues.

Teaching

• oEvidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
• oEvidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
• oExperience of teaching medical students

Experience

• oComprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
• oHigher training experience in psychiatry
• oExperience of acting as Responsible Clinician

Audit and research

• oUnderstanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
• oProven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• oEvidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
• oEvidence of original and relevant research in speciality
• oEvidence of service wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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