Consultant Psychiatrist in South Glos Inpatient Rehabilitation/PCLS

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Job overview

Consultant Psychiatrist - South Gloucestershire

Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist looking for an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership and shape the future of mental health services?

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care and driving innovation across our services. We are seeking a motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to join our South Gloucestershire locality, working across two key services: the Inpatient Open Rehabilitation Unit at 37 Whittucks Road, Hanham, and the Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) at Kingswood Civic Centre.

This varied role offers the opportunity to influence care across inpatient and community settings. Within the Rehabilitation Unit, you will provide clinical and medical leadership, supporting the development of rehabilitation services across South Gloucestershire and BNSSG.

In the PCLS, you will strengthen an established multidisciplinary team, helping to meet growing demand, expand clinical capacity, and improve access to specialist mental health support within primary care.

Join a forward-thinking Trust where your expertise, leadership and ideas will help shape services and improve outcomes for the communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to work across two established services within South Gloucestershire: the Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) and the Inpatient Open Rehabilitation Unit.

Within PCLS, you will provide specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for service users in the community, undertaking both initial medical assessments and follow-up reviews. You will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team, attending daily triage and clinical discussion meetings, providing medical expertise to support patient care, and offering advice and guidance to GPs and other healthcare professionals.

Within the Open Rehabilitation Unit, you will provide consultant leadership and comprehensive psychiatric care to inpatients, including direct and indirect clinical care, supervision of junior medical staff, consultation with colleagues, and multidisciplinary working. You will also lead the review of out-of-area placements for BSW service users, working collaboratively with community teams, social care, and partner agencies to support repatriation to local services through personalised rehabilitation pathways and recovery-focused care plans.

The post offers opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership, service development, teaching, supervision, and quality improvement across both inpatient and community settings.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Please note that Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is not currently a sponsor under the GMC Sponsorship Scheme.

As a result, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require GMC sponsorship

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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 with 3 months of appointment

Desirable criteria

• CCT in General Adult Psychiatry

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of assessing and treating patients in a community setting.
• Knowledge and evidence of participation in CPD
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

• To possess leadership skills and be able 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.
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of specific achievements that demonstrate leadership skills

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in Adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.
• Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of alternatives to inpatient admission care approaches

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.

Desirable criteria

• Experience as an Educational Supervisor for trainees

Research and Audit

Essential criteria

• Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
• Experience of carrying out an audit project.

Management

Essential criteria

• Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

Desirable criteria

• Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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