Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Forensic/In reach
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 110-MD004-0823-G
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie Health Park and Ysbyty George Thomas
- Town
- Treorchy
- Salary
- £91,722 - £119,079 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Forensic 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 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This job is a unique opportunity to work as Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist/ Prison Inreach team within the Community Forensic psychiatry team, who are responsible for the management of those diagnosed with mental disorder in the criminal justice system, including those conditionally discharged from 37/41 restrictions, the bulk of whom live in supported placements. The role of the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist would be to provide psychiatric expertise, advice and leadership into the Community Forensic team.
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 expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary community forensic mental health team.
- Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of mentally ill offenders aged 18 and over referred from within the locality.
- Provide input into HMP Parc prison for adults of working age via the prison inreach team.
- Provide medical liaison and advice to the Forensic nurse practitioners and Criminal Justice liaison workers.
- Provide advice on step-down to the High dependency rehabilitation unit from Low and Medium secure units
See attached JD and supporting information
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Interview date: 10th July 2024
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.
- 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.
- 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.
see attached Full Detailed Job Description and supporting Documents
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration
- S.12(2) approval.
- Approved Clinician approval
- On Specialist Register for Psychiatry or be within six months of the anticipated CCT/CESR if progress has been satisfactory and it is anticipated that the outcome of the final ARCP will recommend that training will be completed by the time the recommended CCT /CESR date is reached.
Desirable criteria
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- • Additional relevant postgraduate qualification
- Relevant Clinical Qualification
- Welsh Approved Clinician approval
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
- • Higher training experience in psychiatry
- Endorsement in Rehabilitation Psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of acting as Responsible Clinician
Management
Essential criteria
- Management and administrative experience
- Ability to supervise staff effectively
Desirable criteria
- Experience of appraising staff
- Evidence of service development
- Evidence of formal management Training
Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
- Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of original and relevant research in Speciality
Teaching
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
- • Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of teaching medical 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
- Mary Self
- Job title
- Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443700
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