Consultant Psychiatrist - Community

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Consultant Psychiatrist - Community

The closing date is 30 April 2026

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.

Welsh and English speakers welcome to apply. The post may close early if sufficient applications are received. Interview date: 2 June 2026.

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 other Adult Mental Health Services.

About us

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job 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

• Full GMC Registration.
• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Approved Clinician Approval.

Experience

• Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
• Higher training experience in psychiatry.
• Experience of acting as responsible clinician.

Audit and Research

• Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
• Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• Evidence of service-wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice.
• Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality.

Management and teaching

• Management and administration experience.
• Ability to supervise staff effectively.
• Evidence of having delivered multidisciplinary teaching.
• Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching.
• Experience of appraising staff.
• Evidence of formal management training.
• Evidence of teaching medical students.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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