Consultant Psychiatrist in Acute Care (Aneurin Ward)

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board; Bangor; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist in Acute Care to lead clinical services within the Hergest Male Inpatient ward. You will have direct responsibility for female inpatients, engage in care management, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. This role offers flexible working options, professional development, and is central to the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Career progression opportunities

Wellness support services

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Experience in leading a multi-disciplinary team is desirable.
• Evidence of training in core and specialist competencies.

Responsibilities

• Direct clinical responsibility for female inpatients during the course of their admission.
• Attend daily Acute Care Meetings to discuss patient flow.
• Management of complex cases in collaboration with HTT and community CMHTs.

Skills

Community psychiatry

Clinical leadership

Teaching skills

Research capabilities

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCPsych or equivalent

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist in Acute Care (Aneurin Ward)

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Job Overview

Job Overview

The Acute Care Service is fully developed and includes Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), one male and one female inpatient ward and a Home Treatment Teams (HTT) for Gwynedd and Anglesey. Acute services are currently clinically led by one Responsible Clinician (RC) for each of the two acute inpatient wards and one RC covering PICU and HTT. This post will cover the Hergest Male Inpatient ward providing a substantive consultant led acute care service for the 2 counties.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have direct clinical responsibility (RC) for all female inpatients (except functional OPMH patients) during the course of their admission on the 17-bedded Aneurin Ward, Hergest Unit

Clinical management for all female inpatients on Aneurin Ward at Hergest Unit including covering the Mental Health Act related roles as Responsible Clinician for the duration of their inpatient stay.

Attend the daily Acute Care Meeting to discuss matters of patient flow, delayed discharges and potential discharges. The meeting is held every morning and tends to last 15-30 minutes.

Management of complex cases in collaboration with HTT and the community CMHTs.

Clinical leadership within Acute Care setting.

Develop care plan and treatment formulation, guidance on evidence based treatment and effectiveness

Working for our organisation

We are delighted that you are interested in joining the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division. When you join the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities division, you can balance work and life – with flexible working opportunities, hybrid and agile vacancies and an abundance of training and career development opportunities.

Some of the many benefits of joining the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division include;

• Wellness, Work and Us - a human service providing support and intervention to staff at times of need. The quality of our interactions is grounded in our own sense of wellbeing - when we are well, we can better support each other and the people who use our services.
• Offering services ranging from drop-in sessions, counselling, coaching & an onsite gym.
• Managerial and Clinical supervisions – regular opportunities for staff to gain feedback from managers, discuss development opportunities and focus on overall wellbeing.
• Flexible working to suit you and your family, such as full time, annualised hours, part time, term time, remote and hybrid working, to enable you to achieve a great work-life balance. Let us discuss!
• Support to progress your career in a place that allows you to reach your goals inside work and out.
• A chance to be recognised for great work through our staff achievement awards.
• Continued professional development opportunities through our in house training and external academic courses within local colleges and universities
  
  

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Personal Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click ‘Apply Now’ to view in Trac.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Welsh AC Approval.
  
  

Eligibility

Essential Criteria

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of completing CCT.
• CCT or equivalent (equivalence must be confirmed by GMC by date of AAC)
• Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Approved under S12 or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
  
  

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence of training in the core and specialist competencies for community psychiatry.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in leading a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of community psychiatric practice.
  
  

Teaching and Training

Essential Criteria

• Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching.
• Evidence of having delivered multidisciplinary teaching.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching medical students.
  
  

Research/Audit

Essential Criteria

• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• Evidence of having undertaken a relevant audit project.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of research in community mental health care.
  
  

Motivation

Essential Criteria

• Evidence of commitment and enthusiasm to provide specialist adult mental health services.
  
  

Welsh Language Requirements

Essential criteria

• The ability to communicate in Welsh

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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