Locum Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry - Ceredigion

The Older Adults Mental Health Service Consultant role provides an opportunity to live and work in West Wales as part of a caring and committed team delivering high quality services to our later life population. As an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be able to work across the pathway of primary, community and specialist secondary care maintaining that all important continuity.

We welcome and support colleagues to develop their areas of special interest be that clinical, academic, research or managerial in nature and we have a very strong record of consultant retention.

Main duties of the job

• This is a sector-based pathway service, such that the role encompasses:

• the assessment at the initial referral stage (whether in the patient's home, care home, or in clinic)
• the MDT based formulation of risk and treatment plans
• the ongoing management of episodes of later life mental ill health and, where appropriate, the admission to the older adults mental health ward that you will clinically lead.

Knowledge and experience of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act are essential; the Mental Health (Wales) Measure will form a crucial part of your work and, if unfamiliar, you will be expected to become competent in its application. Section 12 MHA and Approved Clinician status are expected.

The service sees, assesses and manages functional and organic disorders in later life and, working well and closely with our colleagues in General Adult services, has a pragmatic approach to transitions & boundaries. Patients known to you and your service, if admitted to General Hospital, will remain under your team's care but you will enjoy support and close working relations with your local MH liaison service. We are proud of our culture of mutual respect and cooperation across service and specialty boundaries.

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate for this Consultant post will be eligible to hold an Honorary Academic title at a partner university on the understanding that they will participate in undergraduate teaching, including acting as an examiner, and support and facilitate research activities in an appropriate university faculty and school. They will take direction in these activities via the appropriate academic lead. The agreement to define the Honorary Academic responsibilities and associated programmed activities in relation to teaching time and research will be negotiated jointly between the post holder, the university and the Health Board. It will form part of the successful candidates job plan.

This is an established Consultant post in Older Adults Mental Health, working to a geographical sector model. You will be responsible for the assessment and management of clients referred to your Community Mental Health Team. For those clients you admit to your older persons psychiatric in-patient unit, you will direct their care and fulfil the Responsible Clinician role. You will not be responsible for routine dementia diagnosis services in your area as the memory assessment service is a separate established service. You will join a collegiate group of Consultants, who have a strong and supportive relationship with the service management, and we will work together to deliver the best services.

For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy. Discussions around working pattern will take place during initial job planning, where preferences, requirements and options can be discussed and explored in full.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential

• Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
• Approved under Section 12(2) MHA 1983
• MBBS or equivalent

• Appropriate Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD or MSc or equivalent
• On Specialist Register with GMC or CCT due within 6 months of interview date
• Or Portfolio Pathway (CESR) or equivalent European Qualifications for Specialist Registration
• To hold Approved Clinician status at the point of taking up the post
• MRCPsych or FRCPsych or other Clinical Experience

Clinical Governance

• Essential

• Evidence of participation in clinical audit and quality improvement project work and understanding their role in improving medical practice

• Knowledge of risk management

Research

• Essential

• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes

• Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding research projects with publication

Teaching

• Essential

• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors

• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
• Training the Trainers experience

Management

• Essential

• Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS

• Evidence of management training