Consultant Psychiatrist - Rehabilitation

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

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All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Job overview

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.

Full details on attached job description

Main duties of the job

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

• 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.

Full Details on Attached JD and Person specification

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Interview date: 21st of January 2025

Working for our organisation

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.

• provide supervision for the Speciality 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.

full details on attached Job Description

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry
• Higher training experience in psychiatry.

• • Experience of acting as s12(2) doctor or Responsible Clinician

Qualifications and Eligibility

• Current GMC registration
• MRC Psych or equivalent
• S.12 (2) Approval
• Approved Clinician Approval

• Relevant Clinical qualification
• Additional postgrad Qualification

Skills and Abilities

• Competence in current assessment and treatment
• Competence in risk assessment and management
• Understanding of relevant clinical legal and policy issues

• Computing Skills

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.