< Back

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join a progressive Mental Health service in Wales. This post is available on a substantive or locum basis and offers the opportunity to work within an established multidisciplinary team that delivers high-quality community and crisis mental health services.

The successful candidate will play a key leadership role in service development, outpatient care, crisis pathways, and modernisation of mental health services, including support for a developing 24-hour single point of admission and triage model. Applicants with 1 year of NHS experience are encouraged to apply.

Main Duties of the Job

• Provide Consultant-led psychiatric care for adult patients in community mental health settings.
• Undertake specialist psychiatric assessments, including history taking, mental state examination, diagnosis and treatment planning.
• Hold responsibility for outpatient caseload management and ongoing Care & Treatment Plans.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams including nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and support staff.
• Participate in weekly MDT meetings, referral meetings and service planning discussions.
• Conduct medication reviews, risk assessments and crisis management planning.
• Support transitions between inpatient and community services.
• Participate in developing crisis response and 24/7 triage pathways.
• Supervise junior doctors and other clinicians where appropriate.
• Participate in audit, governance, appraisal, CPD and quality improvement programmes.
• Contribute to the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate staff.
• Participate in the Consultant on-call rota (currently 1:14 non-residential).

Person Specific

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration
• Licence to Practise
• On the GMC Specialist Register in Psychiatry or eligible for CCT within 6 months
• MRCPsych or equivalent psychiatric qualification
• Approved Clinician status or eligibility is desirable

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 1 year NHS experience
• Previous NHS Psychiatry experience
• Experience managing adult mental health patients
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience teaching undergraduate/postgraduate clinical staff
• Experience in clinical audit and governance
• Ability to improve and modernise services

Desirable

• Research in mental health
• Change management/service transformation experience
• Mental Health Act responsibilities as an Approved Clinician
• Leadership or management experience

Skills & Attributes

• Strong clinical leadership and decision-making
• Excellent communication with patients, carers and colleagues
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing demands
• Compassion, empathy and professionalism
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Strong teamwork across agencies and disciplines
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Good IT and digital systems awareness