Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- FT Senior Clinical Fellow (LAS) in Forensic Psychiatry
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (To cover maternity leave 29/6/2026 until 19/4/2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Participating on the Non resident on call rota)
- Job ref
- 130-34698322-0926
- Employer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Caswell clinic
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £56,925 - £80,730 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
FT Senior Clinical Fellow (LAS) in Forensic Psychiatry
FT Senior Clinical Fellow (LAS) in Forensic Psychiatry
OUR VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS
We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:
Caring for each other - in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals.
Working together - as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first
Always improving - so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.
Job overview
Do you share our Health Board values; Caring for each other; Working together; Always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB.
We have an exciting opportunity for a FT Senior Clinical Fellow ( LAS) in Forensic Psychiatry to join the Forensic department based in Glanrhyd Hospital in Bridgend to commence on 5th August 2026 until 19th April 2027 only to provide cover for a vacant training post. This post will form part of the Non Resident rota.
We have close links with Swansea University and other University College partners in South Wales especially in the areas of research & development and multi-professional teaching.
We place great emphasis on continuous professional development and will actively support you in the development and achievement of personal goals
Main duties of the job
This post is aimed at ST Higher level. The post-holder will have the opportunity to gain experience in Forensic Mental Health. We encourage uptake of training opportunities and will support relevant courses for the candidate’s education and training needs.
The successful candidates will work together with the wider clinical team of Consultants, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Junior Doctors and other Allied Health Professionals to provide high quality, safe and effective clinical care. Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team. Applicants must hold Full GMC registration with a licence to practise or show evidence that it will be issued by start date. We are not able to sponsor candidates for GMC registration.
Even though the posts will not be recognised for training the successful candidates will have the opportunity to attend teaching and participate in audit, quality improvement and research projects where possible similar to the Wales Deanery Trainees. The successful candidates will also have dedicated educational supervisor. These posts will participate on the medical on call rota and have similar responsibilities to the training grades. There is a study leave budget available and associated funding will be considered by the Medical Director Office and approved for educational opportunities.
Working for our organisation
Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people. We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot.
The Health Board is part of A Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), which is a partnership with Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea University. Aimed at improving the wellbeing and wealth of South West Wales.
Swansea is Wales' second-largest city, and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay. An ideal base for exploring South-West Wales, there is also much on offer for visitors in Swansea itself. Swansea has a range of shops, cozy cafes, great restaurants, art galleries as well as being able to offer good outdoor lifestyle with its beautiful coastline and beaches on the Gower Peninsula. Swansea also has excellent sporting facilities including the Wales National pool and liberty stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea City football club.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details in relation to this post, please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification. These are available bilingually, in both English and Welsh.
Person specification
Qualifications:
Essential criteria
- • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- • MRCPsych examination by offer date
Desirable criteria
- • Additional related qualifications e.g., BSc, BA, BMedSci or equivalent (not including intercalated BSc or ‘Honorary’ MA)
Clinical skills – clinical knowledge & expertise
Essential criteria
- • Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems. • Ability to prioritise clinical need. • Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk. • Demonstrates appropriate knowledge base and sound clinical judgement. • Demonstrates ability in basic skills of history taking examination (mental and physical) and synthesis of findings. • Demonstrates basic psychotherapeutic skills
Research, Audit and Quality Improvement
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues. • Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives. • Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-informed practice • Capacity to critically appraise research in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- Research, Audit and Quality Improvement • Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g., degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements • Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project • Understanding of service-user contribution to and perspective of audit and research Teaching: • Evidence of interest in, and experience of, teaching • Evidence of feedback for teaching
Personal skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills: • Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication, and capacity to adapt language to the situation, as appropriate. • Able to build rapport and engage others in open/equal dialogue, actively listen, persuade and negotiate. • Appropriate use of non-verbal communication
- Judgement and Problem Solving: • Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions. • Ability to integrate a range of information and facts to form an initial hypothesis. • Capacity to work effectively with ambiguous and conflicting information. • Capacity to think beyond the obvious, with an analytical/scientific, yet flexible approach. • Capacity to take a holistic approach to problem solving, considering a range of alternatives and approaches.
- Empathy and sensitivity: • Capacity and motivation to take in others’ perspectives and treat others with understanding. • Ability to see patients as people with an awareness of their needs and wishes. • Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of acting compassionately towards patients and their families. • Consideration and sensitivity to the importance of understanding and respecting patients' cultural values and practices
- Working as Part of a Team: • Understanding of the importance of integrated clinical care • Ability to work effectively in multi-professional teams and across agencies. • Ability to show leadership, make decisions, organise and motivate other team members, for the benefit of patients through, for example, audit and quality improvement projects. • Capacity to work cooperatively and effectively with others. • Exchange knowledge effectively between team members. • Understanding of the importance of each team members’ role and what can be learnt from them. • Ability to take accountability for one’s decisions. • Capacity to exchange knowledge effectively between team members • Ability to effectively consult with other physicians and healthcare professionals.
- Leadership • Capacity to take the lead in diagnosis and prognosis. • Capacity to take responsibility for patient care appropriately. • Willingness to be held accountable when operating as part of a team. • Capacity to effectively delegate to others when appropriate. • Ability to supervise junior medical staff. • The confidence to challenge the viewpoints of others. • Capacity to build relationships and motivate team members in order to get the best out of others.
Desirable criteria
- Communication skills: • Capacity to use effective interview skills. • Ability to engage the patient and motivate them to change.
- Empathy and sensitivity: • Capacity to collect patient history with sensitivity and care. • Ability to be empathic but not become emotionally attached
- Empathy and sensitivity: • Capacity to collect patient history with sensitivity and care. • Ability to be empathic but not become emotionally attached
- Organisation and planning: • Recognition of the need for efficient and equitable use of resources
- Organisation and planning: • Recognition of the need for efficient and equitable use of resources
- Other: • Evidence of achievement outside medicine • Evidence of altruistic behaviour, e.g., voluntary work • Evidence of organisational skills – not necessarily in medicine, e.g., grant or bursary applications, organisation of a university club, sports section, etc.
Commitment to specialty – learning and personal development
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates interest and realistic insight into psychiatry and mental health. • Shows initiative/drive/enthusiasm (self-starter, motivated, shows curiosity, initiative) for the specialty. • Interest in working closely with people and helping others. • Commitment to lifelong learning • Commitment to personal and professional development • Demonstrates interest and realistic insight into psychiatry and mental health. • Demonstrable interest in, and understanding of, the specialty. • Commitment to personal and professional development • Evidence of attendance at organised teaching and training programme(s) • Evidence of self-reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- • Extracurricular activities / achievements/ interest and realistic insight relevant to psychiatry
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 not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Allyson Witts, Consultant
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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