Consultant Psychiatrist - Acute Hospital Liaison, Swindon Swindon

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Acute Hospital Liaison Service, based at the Victoria Centre on the Great Western Hospital site. You will join a well-established, highly regarded multidisciplinary team with strong links to community and crisis services, working within a PLAN-accredited liaison psychiatry service. This post offers a key clinical leadership role, providing assessment and treatment advice for adults of working age in the acute hospital, while working closely with the team manager to lead service development and quality improvement. There are excellent opportunities to shape and grow the service further in a supportive and forward-thinking environment. The role also offers strong professional development opportunities, including reinstating core and higher trainee placements, contributing to teaching within the hospital, and access to a Trust-wide leadership development programme covering personal leadership, team leadership, and leading change.

Main duties of the job: Following fresh investment into the medical workforce, we are recruiting two consultant colleagues to join working with the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) attached with the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon. GWH is a 670 bedded District general hospital with a 24/7 emergency department. The team provide rapid, prioritised and proportionate assessment of mental health needs for patients admitted to the GWH. The service accepts referrals for patients aged 18 and over from both the wards and the Emergency Department. On average, the team receives about thirty referrals on a weekly basis. These include about twenty General Adult referrals and about ten referrals for older adult service users. The post holder is expected to attend a daily MDT meeting in the morning with the team members, triage these referrals and see as appropriate. Usually, it averages to about three to four face-to-face patient contacts on a daily basis.

About us: We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

Job responsibilities: Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications
• Essential: MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Desirable: Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Eligibility
• Essential: Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment. Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT. Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment. Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Desirable: CCT in General Adult Psychiatry.
• Experience
• Essential: Experience of assessing and treating patients in an inpatient/community setting.
• Personal Skills
• Essential: To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team. Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work. Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Clinical Skills
• Essential: Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.
• Knowledge
• Essential: Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.
• Teaching
• Essential: Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching. Understand principles of teaching.
• Research and Audit
• Essential: Experience or involvement in a research project and publication. Experience of carrying out an audit project.
• Management
• Essential: Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.