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

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
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
- Arif Alam
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443712
- Additional information
Neil Thomas
Clinical Director
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