Consultant Psychiatrist

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health trust in Swindon is seeking two Consultants to join their Acute Hospital Liaison Service. The role demands clinical leadership, diagnostic, and treatment advice for mental health patients, with a focus on collaboration within a multidisciplinary team. Applicants should have a background in general adult, dual trained, or older adult psychiatry. This position offers a significant teaching role and flexibility in session arrangement to meet service needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care, ideally with adult and older adult populations.
• Proven ability to work in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide diagnostic and treatment advice for patients.
• Support the team with clinical leadership and service improvement.
• Train and mentor general hospital staff on mental health.

Skills

Leadership skills

Diagnostic and treatment knowledge

Teaching and training abilities

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Education

Medical degree with psychiatry specialization

Job description

Overview

We are seeking two Consultant to join our Acute Hospital Liaison Service in Swindon. These are two newly created posts based within the Mental Health Unit at the Victoria Centre on the site of Great Western Hospital.

You’ll be joining a forward-thinking Trust with a well established multidisciplinary team that has good links to community and crisis services. We offer a leadership development programme designed to support you around three core areas; self as a leader, leading teams and leading change and transition.

The role of the psychiatrist is for diagnostic and treatment advice as well as supporting the wider team for patients attending GWH. The consultant will have a key clinical leadership role, with service improvement and development, alongside the team manager. In addition there is a significant teaching and training aspect to this role, for general hospital staff.

Applications are welcomed from general adult, dual trained, or older adult backgrounds, and there is flexibility in the number of sessions as long as service needs can be met.

About the Trust

Following fresh investment into the medical workforce, we are recruiting Two consultant colleagues to join working with the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) attached with the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon. GWH is a 670 bedded District general hospital with a 24/7 emergency department.

Team and Service

The team provide rapid, prioritised and proportionate assessment of mental health needs for patients admitted to the GWH. The service accepts referrals for patients aged 18 and over from both the wards and the Emergency Department.

On an average the team receives about Thirty referrals on a weekly basis. These include about Twenty General Adult referrals and about ten referrals for older adult service users. The post holder is expected to attend a daily MDT meeting in the morning with the team members, triage these referrals and see as appropriate. Usually it averages to about Three to four Face to Face patient contacts on a daily basis.

About AWP

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care