This Consultant Psychiatrist post sits in the South Gloucestershire locality of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, split between the Inpatient Open Rehabilitation Unit in Hanham and the Primary Care Liaison Service at Kingswood Civic Centre. Work covers specialist community assessment and treatment, consultant leadership of inpatient care, and leading the review of out-of-area placements for BSW service users. Across inpatient and community settings, it combines supervision of junior doctors with work in a multidisciplinary team. The Trust is not a GMC sponsor, so applicants needing sponsorship cannot be considered.
What the job involves
- Provide specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for community service users, including initial assessments and follow-up reviews in the PCLS
- Attend daily triage and clinical discussion meetings as an active member of the PCLS multidisciplinary team
- Advise and guide GPs and other healthcare professionals
- Provide consultant leadership and comprehensive psychiatric care to inpatients on the Open Rehabilitation Unit, including direct and indirect clinical care
- Supervise junior medical staff and consult with colleagues
- Lead the review of out-of-area placements for BSW service users
- Work with community teams, social care and partner agencies to support repatriation through personalised rehabilitation pathways and recovery-focused care plans
- Support the development of rehabilitation services across South Gloucestershire and BNSSG
- Contribute to clinical leadership, service development, teaching, supervision and quality improvement across inpatient and community settings
- Help meet growing demand, expand clinical capacity and improve access to specialist mental health support within primary care
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Registration & licences
- GMC registration with licence to practise at appointment
- GMC Specialist Register, or within six months of gaining CCT
- Approved clinician status and S12 approval, or able to achieve both within 3 months of appointment
Experience
- Experience assessing and treating patients in a community setting
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement
- Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Experience of a research project with publication, and of an audit project
Skills & knowledge
- Leadership skills and ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
- Ability to appraise own performance as a consultant
- Excellent communication with patients, carers and staff, written and oral
- Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in working-age adults and deal with crisis situations
Other
- Understanding of consultant management skills, and evidence of management or leadership skills training
- Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation
Nice to have
- Relevant higher degree (MD, PhD, MSc) or additional clinical qualifications
- MRCPsych, or equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
- Evidence of specific achievements demonstrating leadership skills
- Knowledge of alternatives to inpatient admission care approaches
- Experience as an Educational Supervisor for trainees
- Previous management experience, including of junior medical staff
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
