Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist in Bedworth

This is a new post that has come about as a result of service development. You will join a well-established Core 24 team covering a large teaching hospital in Coventry and two smaller district general hospitals in Warwick and Nuneaton. This post will cover George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton with minimal cross cover at the other sites. We see age 17+ and have additional dementia psychiatrist support onsite.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites. Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards and elderly care wards and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.

Benefits of joining the team are as follows:

• The opportunity to develop a special interest within liaison – we have someone into each of brain injury / T&O links, autism, NEAD, DKA / T1DE, dementia pathways and palliative care.
• No out of area bed use and over the last 6 months our bed waits have vanished.
• A large and well‑established MDT who are great at the risk assessment work and only involve Consultant when needed.
• Various service development / QI in our team including massive improvement in our KPIs this year, ED triage and a proposal to expand our offer to support HIUs.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all‑age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services. CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme. We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees. We are forward‑thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development. There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a snapshot:

• Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics.
• Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring.
• Excellent wellbeing support, including in‑house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24‑hour confidential helpline.
• Staff networks and support groups.
• Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism.

Job responsibilities

For further details of the post please consult the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

• GMC registration and inclusion on the specialist register in Mental Health or Specialty Trainees within 6 months of completing CCT.
• A postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry e.g. Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Eligible for Approved Clinician status and Approval under section 12 of the Mental Health Act.
• 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.