Consultant Psychiatrist - Rehabilitation

Temple B'nai Abraham; Pontypridd; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a skilled psychiatrist to lead the Outreach and Recovery Team. This role involves providing specialist psychiatric rehabilitation expertise, managing a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring effective clinical management of mental health patients. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the education and training of staff while maintaining their professional development. Join a dedicated team committed to improving mental health services in the community, where your contributions will make a significant impact on the lives of those in need.

Qualifications

• Expertise in psychiatric rehabilitation and clinical management of mental health patients.
• Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and providing supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychiatric rehabilitation expertise to outreach and inpatient teams.
• Liaise with local consultants and GPs for patient management.

Skills

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Expertise

Clinical Management

Leadership

Medical Liaison

Supervision of Trainees

Continuing Professional Development

Education

Medical Degree

Specialist Training in Psychiatry

Job description

The post provides specialist psychiatric rehabilitation expertise to the Outreach and Recovery Team (ORT) currently serving the Rhondda and Taff areas and which works on Assertive Outreach principles. The post holder will also be responsible for the Cefn Yr Afon Unit, an 18-bedded mixed gender rehabilitation facility working on Community Rehabilitation Unit principles in Bridgend.

The post holder will be required to liaise with other senior clinicians as and when necessary.

The post holder will be expected to:

• provide clinical psychiatric rehabilitation expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary outreach and recovery team and an inpatient rehabilitation team.
• provide specialist assessment and clinical management of patients aged 18 and over with mental health problems under the ORT and inpatients at Cefn Yr Afon.
• provide medical liaison and advice regarding patients to local consultants and GPs as necessary.
• provide supervision for the Specialty doctor and core trainee, and to a Specialty Training Registrar if the post holder is approved as an Educational Supervisor and if an ST is allocated to the team.
• liaise effectively with members of the team, other services within the Health Board, general practitioners and other agencies.
• 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.
• maintain their professional knowledge base and competency by involvement in continuing professional development (CPD) and to take part in the Wales Revalidation Process which includes annual appraisals for the purposes of revalidation.
• arrange cross cover with the other rehabilitation and sector consultants.
• take part in the consultant on-call rota within the Mental Health Directorate.
• undertake responsibilities under the Mental Health Act as a s.12 approved doctor and as an Approved Clinician.
• undertake responsibilities under the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.

Interview date: 21st of January 2025

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

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