Job summary
- Main area
- Community Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD360-0725-A
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maesteg Hospital
- Town
- Maesteg
- Salary
- £110,240 - £160,951 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - Community
Consultant
Job overview
· To provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary adult community mental health team.
· To provide specialist assessment and clinical management of adult patients in the community.
· To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Health Board’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
· To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
· To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
Full details on attached Job Description
Welsh and English speakers welcome to apply.
The post may close early if sufficient applications received
Interview Date: December 17th 2025
Main duties of the job
· Responsibility for the provision of Adult Mental Health Services in the area of North Bridgend (approximate population 55,000 adults). A second catchment area Consultant Psychiatrist currently in post will provide services for the population of Bridgend South.
· Responsible for the application of the Mental Health Act when applied by the post holder to their patients.
· Work collaboratively with the other Adult Mental Health Services.
Full details on attached Job description
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
· To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
· To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
· To participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
· To attend and participate in the academic Programme of the Health Board, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD Programme.
· To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, to work within the framework of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration.
- • • MRCPsych or equivalent.
- Approved Clinician Approval
Desirable criteria
- • Additional relevant postgraduate qualification
- Relevant clinical qualification
- Welsh Clinician approval
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry
- Higher training experience in psychiatry.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Acting as 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
- Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality.
Management and teaching
Essential criteria
- Management and Administration Experience
- Ability to supervise Staff Effectively
- Evidence of having delivered multi disciplinary teaching
- Evidence of having delivered Post Graduate teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Appraising Staff
- Evidence of formal Management Training
- evidence of teaching med students
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Neil Thomas
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443443712
- Additional information
Arif Alam
Consultant Psychiatrist
01443443712
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