Job summary
- Main area
- General Adult Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 444-7135214A-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
Candidate Information Pack - final version - digital (canva.com)
Job overview
This is a new post that has come about as a result of service development in keeping with the Core24 requirement.
As a Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry the postholder will join a team of Consultants providing comprehensive acute mental health services to Coventry & Warwickshire localities; participate in providing postgraduate training to the Coventry and Warwickshire Junior Doctor Training Scheme and undergraduate education for medical students from Warwick Medical School. You will require leadership and team building skills as well as clinical experience and educational ability.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites.
Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards and elderly care wards and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services.
CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme.
We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees.
We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.
There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a just a snapshot:
- NHS pension scheme
- Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics
- Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
- Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline
- Staff networks and support groups
- Teaching opportunities
- Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of the post please consult the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration and inclusion on the specialist register in Mental Health or Specialty Trainees within 6 months of completing CCT
- A postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry e.g. Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Eligible for Approved Clinician status and Approval under section 12 of the Mental Health Act
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Charlotte Heaps
- Job title
- Medical Lead for Mental Health Liaison Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
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