This is a consultant post in general adult psychiatry with the North Wiltshire Intensive Service, vacant as the current post-holder leaves. The role centres on clinical leadership and consultation for the intensive team, supporting home-based care and moving patients safely between inpatient and community services. Advice runs through the working week rather than at fixed times, with weekly multidisciplinary case reviews and a speciality doctor being recruited to support. Applicants need a GMC licence to practise and Section 12 approval, or the ability to gain approved clinician status and S12 approval within three months of appointment.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical leadership and consultation for intensive team members
- Support home-based care and safe, timely transfers between inpatient and community services
- Assess and treat referred patients, advising on management plans through team reviews and handovers
- Lead the acute care pathway with intensive and inpatient colleagues
- Teach and supervise medical students
- Take part in clinical governance and quality improvement
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at appointment
- 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
Experience
- Assessing and treating patients in a community setting
- Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience, and understanding of teaching principles
- Involvement in a research project with publication
- Experience of carrying out an audit project
Skills & knowledge
- Leadership skills and collaborative working in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
- Excellent written and oral communication with patients, carers and staff
- Ability to assess and treat working-age adults with psychiatric problems and deal with crises
- Understanding of the management skills needed to function as a consultant
- Evidence of management or leadership skills training
Nice to have
- Higher degree such as MD, PhD or MSc, or other additional clinical qualifications
- MRCPsych, or an equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
What’s offered
- Study leave and expenses supported for CPD
- Support to develop an area of special clinical interest
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
