Job summary
- Main area
- Liaison Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD064-1223-C
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £91,722 - £119,079 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
Consultant
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.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has risen to join the fantastic Liaison Psychiatry Medical Team.
This is a New Consultant post based in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board for Liaison Services and you will be joining Colleagues in a very dynamic and forward looking Directorate, with supportive colleagues and a culture where development and progression is embedded. The Post holder will be managerially responsible to Dr Arif Alam, Interim Clinical Group Service Director. The Post holder will be required to liaise with Clinicians as and when necessary. Further the Post holder will be expected work at other UHB Sites if required.
The superb team work in a close working nature with other colleagues and this makes the Cwm Taf Morgannwg mental Health Liaison team stand out– A team that anyone would be proud to work with!
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Interview Date: 10th July 2024
Main duties of the job
- Implementation of the Mental Health Act and associated duties.
- Liaison and collaboration with colleagues from the Directorate and beyond – including other organisations, Local Authorities and the third sector.
- Supervision of team members as appropriate, taking a full part in referral handling and team meetings.
- Taking on much of the clinical leadership of the team, working closely with other senior professionals including Mental Health Liaison Practitioners.
- The management of complex cases, providing leadership and specialist advice to colleagues across the team.
- Triaging new referrals and sign posting to most appropriate person to undertake initial assessment.
- Assessment, diagnosis and formulation of management plans for patients
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary Liaison Mental health team.
- To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Health Board’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
- To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
Full Details are in the attached Job Description and Person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration
- • M.R.C.Psych. or equivalent
- • S.12(2) approval
- • Approved Clinician approval.
- • On Specialist Register for Psychiatry or be within six months of the anticipated CCT/CESR date if progress has been satisfactory and it is anticipated that the outcome of the final ARCP will recommend that training will be completed by the time the recommended CCT/CESR date is reached
Desirable criteria
- • Additional relevant postgraduate qualification.
- • Welsh Approved Clinician approval.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Competence in current assessment and treatment
- • Competence in risk assessment and management
- • Understanding of relevant clinical, legal and policy issues.
Desirable criteria
- • Computing skills.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
- • Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of teaching medical students
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
- • Higher training experience in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of acting as Responsible Clinician
Audit and research
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
- • Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
- • Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality
- • Evidence of service wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cal Bascom
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443712
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