Consultant Psychiatrist

NHS; Pentre; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is looking for a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership and specialist assessment to patients within the community mental health team. The ideal candidate will have comprehensive training in psychiatry and be eligible for GMC registration, offering a chance to make a significant impact in mental health care for the local community.

Qualifications

• Registered with the GMC and holds MRC Psych.
• Qualification as an Approved Clinician and relevant section 12 (2) approval required.
• Experience in acting as a Responsible Clinician.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and leadership within the community mental health team.
• Supervise medical and training staff involved in patient care.
• Attend committees and actively participate in service management.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Supervision

Teaching

Education

Current GMC registration

MRC Psych or equivalent

Approved Clinician Approval

Section 12 (2) approval

Welsh approved Clinician Approval

Job description

Go back Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Consultant Psychiatrist

The closing date is 03 July 2025

Provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary community mental health team.

Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of patients aged 18 and over with mental health problems referred from within the locality.

Full details on attached JD and Person Specification.

Please note this Job Description is Pending Royal College Approval.

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

Main duties of the job

Provide medical liaison and advice to the Primary Mental Health Support Service and local GPs on a sessional basis.

Provide supervision for the Speciality doctor and core trainee, and to a Specialist Registrar if the post holder is approved as trainer and an SpR is allocated to the team.

Full details on attached JD

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

Contribute to the management of the service by attendance at appropriate committees and meetings, by involvement in audit and by taking on specific management roles which may, from time to time, be agreed.

Play an active role in the education and training of medical, nursing and other staff.

Full details on attached JD

Person Specification

Qualifications and eligibilty

• Current GMC registration
• MRC Psych or equivalent
• Approved Clinician Approval
• Section 12 (2) approval
• Welsh approved Clinician Approval

Knowledge and Experience

• Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry
• Higher training experience in psychiatry.
• oExperience of acting as s12(2) doctor or Responsible Clinician

Audit and Research

• Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
• Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality
• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• Evidence of service wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice

Management/Teaching

• Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
• Ability to supervise Staff Effectively
• Evidence of having delivered multi disciplinary teaching
• Experience of Appraising Staff
• oEvidence of service development.
• evidence of teaching med students

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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