Consultant Psychiatrist - Rehabilitation

1. 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.
2. We are seeking an individual to join our team as Consultant Psychiatrist - Rehabilitation.
3. The post holder will also be responsible for the Cefn Yr Afon Unit, an 18-bedded mixed gender rehabilitation facility working on Community Rehabilitation Unit principles in Bridgend.

Job overview:

The post provides specialist psychiatric rehabilitation expertise to the Outreach and Recovery Team (ORT) currently serving the Rhondda and Taff areas and which works on Assertive Outreach principles. The post holder will also be responsible for the Cefn Yr Afon Unit, an 18-bedded mixed gender rehabilitation facility working on Community Rehabilitation Unit principles in Bridgend.

Main Duties Of The Job:

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 psychiatric rehabilitation expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary outreach and recovery team and an inpatient rehabilitation team.
• Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of patients aged 18 and over with mental health problems under the ORT and inpatients at Cefn Yr Afon.
• Provide medical liaison and advice regarding patients to local consultants and GPs as necessary.

English and / or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Interview date: 11th December 2024

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

• Provide supervision for the Speciality doctor and core trainee, and to a Specialty Training Registrar if the post holder is approved as an Educational Supervisor and if an ST is allocated to the team.
• Liaise effectively with members of the team, other services within the Health Board, general practitioners and other agencies.
• 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.
• Maintain their professional knowledge base and competency by involvement in continuing professional development (CPD) and to take part in the Wales Revalidation Process which includes annual appraisals for the purposes of revalidation. 
• Arrange cross cover with the other rehabilitation and sector consultants.
• 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.

Person Specification:

Knowledge & 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

Qualifications & Eligibility:

Essential Criteria:

• Current GMC registration
• MRC Psych or equivalent
• S.12 (2) Approval
• Approved Clinician Approval

Desirable Criteria:

• Relevant Clinical qualification
• Additional postgrad Qualification

Skills & Abilities:

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

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.

Contract: Permanent: Would also consider 12 months fixed Term

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week