Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD322-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £110,240 - £160,951 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Adult Psychiatrist
Consultant
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
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 expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary community mental health team.
· Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of patients aged 18 and over with mental health problems referred from within the locality.
Full details on Attached JD and Person specification. Please note this JD is Pending Royal College Approval.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
· 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.
The post holder will be responsible for organising their professional day and for ensuring that they can be contacted at all times during working hours.
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
· Manage a small caseload of stable and complex patients as Care Coordinator as defined by the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 and to undertake the appropriate clinical and statutory responsibilities of this role.
· Provide medical liaison and advice to the Primary Mental Health Support Service and local GPs on a sessional basis.
· Provide supervision for the speciality doctor and core trainee, and to a Specialist Registrar if the post holder is approved as trainer and an SpR is allocated to the team.
· Liaise effectively with members of the team, other services within the Health Board, general practitioners and other agencies.
Person specification
Qualifications and eligibility
Essential criteria
- Current GMC registration
- MRC Psych or equivalent
- Approved Clinician Approval
- Section 12 (2) approval
Desirable criteria
- • Additional relevant postgraduate qualification
- Relevant clinical qualification
- Welsh approved Clinician Approval
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry
- Higher training experience in psychiatry.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of acting as s12(2) doctor or Responsible Clinician
Audit and research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
- Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality
- Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of service wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice
- Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality.
Management
Essential criteria
- Management and Administration Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Appraising Staff
- • Evidence of service development.
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
- Arif Alam
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443712
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