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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
03/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
04/09/2025

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Consultant 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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

·         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 Job Description is Pending Royal College Approval.

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

Main duties of the job

·         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.

 

Full details on attached JD

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

·         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.

 

Full details on attached JD

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

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

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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