Consultant in Psychiatry for Adults with LD

Champion inclusion. Lead innovation. Transform lives. We are seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate Consultant in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability to join our Pembrokeshire Community Team for Learning Disabilities and help shape the next phase of service development. We are driven by a clear purpose: to ensure people with learning disabilities can access high-quality, compassionate and equitable care for their presenting needs. Our Learning Disability Service continues to evolve, with well-established Dementia, Epilepsy and Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) pathways, and an ambitious Mental Health Pathway currently in development. As a service, we are deeply committed to reducing health inequalities for people with learning disabilities.

In addition to our General Hospital Learning Disability Liaison Team, we have developed a Primary Care Liaison Service, strengthening early identification, intervention and prevention. Education and collaboration sit at the heart of what we do. Our teams work closely with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire People First, delivering high-quality teaching to a wide range of groups, including GP Trainees and Undergraduate Medical Students. These teams are currently being further strengthened to increase capacity, align with wider Directorate support for Liaison services, and enhance our proactive, preventative model of care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist community psychiatric care to people with intellectual disabilities living in Pembrokeshire, working as part of a highly skilled, supportive and multidisciplinary team. This is a senior leadership role offering the opportunity to influence service design, mentor colleagues and drive improvements in care quality and outcomes.

• Providing clinical and professional leadership to staff within the specialty
• Delivering safe, effective and evidence-based clinical care in line with Health Board policies and service plans
• Supporting and developing teaching, training and research activities
• Contributing to the Consultant on-call rota (1 in 14)
• Playing an active role in service development, business planning and strategic growth
• Working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting and training colleagues across professions

Job responsibilities

This role offers the opportunity to combine meaningful clinical leadership with the chance to shape inclusive services that genuinely change lives. You will be supported to innovate, to teach, and to lead within a Health Board that values compassion, collaboration and ambition.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Core expertise in Intellectual Disability Psychiatry
• Experience in running or contributing to a specialty service
• Strong leadership, teambuilding and mentoring skills
• A commitment to continuous professional development, including audit and evidence‐based practice
• Active participation in CPD, appraisal and revalidation

You will also play a vital educational role, including:

• Teaching and training undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees
• Acting as a Supervisor to Resident and Middle Grade medical staff
• Leading or contributing to regular multidisciplinary clinical audits

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 candidate’s job plan. The award of the Honorary Academic contract will be dependent upon a formal application being submitted to the university in accordance with the Honorary Appointments procedures and will be available on a fixed-term basis subject to satisfactory performance in the academic activity undertaken.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Full registration and a License to Practice with the General Medical Council.
• On the GMC Specialist Register (including via Portfolio Pathway (CESR)/European Community Rights) or will have CCT due within six months of interview date.
• Valid Certified Advanced Life Support.
• Where a sub-specialty interest is required sub-specialty training should be to a level appropriate for UK consultant sub-specialist practice - fellowship or equivalent level experience.
• Section 12 Approval
• Additional Higher qualification(s).
• AC Approved Clinician Status

Clinical Experience

• Broad based experience within the specialty area.
• Able to demonstrate core competencies and clinical skills relevant to the post.
• Experience of leading a team.
• Previous experience working in the UK or NHS.

Clinical Governance

• Understanding of the role of Clinical Governance.
• Participation in clinical audit (or quality improvement project) and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice.
• Knowledge of annual job planning/appraisal review process.
• Knowledge of risk management.

Teaching

• Ability to critically assess learning requirements for self and others.
• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching all staff groups.
• Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff.
• Teaching qualification.

Research and Scholarship

• Demonstrates knowledge of current research and best practice in the specialty area.
• Evidence of keeping up to date with current research and best practice.
• Evidence of locating and using clinical guidelines appropriately.
• Evidence of communicating and interpreting research evidence in a meaningful way.
• Active participation in research.

Safeguarding

• Demonstrates knowledge of safeguarding requirements and takes appropriate responsibility.
• Evidence of applying appropriate equality and diversity legislation.

Other

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1)

Skills and Attributes

• Ability to work autonomously and be responsible for actions.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to remain calm whilst working under pressure.
• Undertake responsibility for leading and supervising a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team-working skills.

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.