Consultant Psychiatrist in London

We are pleased to share an opportunity for an experienced Consultant Adult Psychiatrist within our warm and welcoming Adult Mental Health Team in the Rhondda Locality of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, based at the Pentre Municipal Buildings. This is a chance to become part of a passionate and dedicated team that values excellent patient care, professional development, and staff wellbeing. Across our localities—Taff-Ely, Merthyr, Cynon, and Bridgend—you'll find well-established teams led by substantive Consultants, a number of whom have joined in recent years, creating a vibrant and supportive peer network.

We take pride in our friendly, down-to-earth approach, where kindness, collaboration, and continuous learning are central to everything we do. With protected time for education, opportunities in research and leadership, and a strong sense of community, we're here to help you thrive.

Main duties of the job include:

• Providing clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary community mental health team, managing complex cases and offering specialist assessments for adults aged 18 and over.
• Liaising with senior clinicians, GPs, and partner agencies, contributing to the consultant on-call rota, and fulfilling statutory duties under the Mental Health Act and Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
• Supervising junior doctors and having opportunities to engage in research, education, and leadership development.

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.

This post is advertised as Welsh Skills Desirable. Desirable doesn't mean candidates need to have skills in Welsh; this just means we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates if you do. We don't need fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above.

Please note this Job Description is Pending Royal College Approval.

Person Specification:

• Current GMC registration.
• MRC Psych or equivalent.
• Approved Clinician Approval.
• Section 12 (2) approval.
• Welsh approved Clinician Approval.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
• Higher training experience in psychiatry.
• Experience of acting as s12(2) doctor or Responsible Clinician.

Management/Teaching:

• Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to supervise Staff Effectively.
• Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
• Experience of Appraising Staff.
• Evidence of service development.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.