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Job summary

Main area
Psychiatry
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
110-MD320-0625
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Pentre Municipal Buildings
Town
Pentre
Salary
£110,240 - £160,951 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
02/10/2025

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Consultant 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 from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.

Discover more about working with us here:

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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

We are pleased to share an opportunity for an experienced Consultant Adult Psychiatrist within our warm and welcoming Adult Mental Health Team in the Rhondda Locality of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, based at the Pentre Municipal Buildings. 

This is a chance to become part of a passionate and dedicated team that values excellent patient care, professional development, and staff wellbeing. Across our localities—Taff-Ely, Merthyr, Cynon, and Bridgend—you’ll find well-established teams led by substantive Consultants, a number of whom have joined in recent years, creating a vibrant and supportive peer network. 

We take pride in our friendly, down-to-earth approach, where kindness, collaboration, and continuous learning are central to everything we do. With protected time for education, opportunities in research and leadership, and a strong sense of community, we’re here to help you thrive.

You can find out more about our beautiful location in Wales by following this link.

To find out more, view our Psychiatry recruitment pack here.

Main duties of the job

Rhondda benefits from a well-integrated health and social care network, with the Community Mental Health Team playing a key role in delivering holistic, person-centred care. The team—comprising Consultant Psychiatrists, CPNs, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, and Social Workers—works closely with CDAT, LPMHSS, Primary Care, Forensic Services, and Rehabilitation Services. This is an exciting time to join, as the team leads a community redesign to enhance service delivery. We also support continuity of care through 72 adult acute inpatient beds.

As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will:

  • Provide clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary community mental health team, managing complex cases and offering specialist assessments for adults aged 18 and over 
  • Liaise with senior clinicians, GPs, and partner agencies, contribute to the consultant on-call rota, and fulfil statutory duties under the Mental Health Act and Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010
  • Supervise junior doctors and have opportunities to engage in research, education, and leadership development

With strong HEIW support, you can train, examine, and pursue academic pathways. 

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

We welcome a conversation with anyone who would like to know more about working with CTM so please contact Arif Alam.

Our team is driven by a shared sense of social justice and commitment to addressing health inequalities across all ages. We value compassion, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Whether you're drawn by the community, the challenge, or the chance to grow, this is a role where you’ll feel supported, inspired, and proud of the impact you make.

Further details about the role, our service and relocation are available in the attachments.

This post is advertised as Welsh Skills Desirable. Desirable doesn’t mean candidates need to have skills in Welsh;  this just means we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates if you do. We don’t need ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. 

Please note this Job Description is Pending Royal College Approval.

Person specification

Qualifications and eligibilty

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

Management/Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
  • Ability to supervise Staff Effectively
  • Evidence of having delivered multi disciplinary teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Appraising Staff
  • • Evidence of service development.
  • evidence of teaching med students

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Arif Alam
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01443 443712
Additional information

Neil Thomas

Clinical Director

[email protected]

 

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