Senior Consultant Psychiatrist - Pembrokeshire
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Senior
Not specified
Pembroke Dock, WLS, GB
Posted 4 weeks ago
Job summary
Join Hywel Dda University's community team supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities. Take on the role of a Consultant where you'll lead clinical care and contribute to teaching and research in a dynamic environment. This is a chance to impact lives while enjoying professional growth with a well-established health board team of over 13,000. Apply now to be part of innovative service delivery that makes a real difference!
Role details
- Role
- Full-time
- Industry
- Healthcare And Medical
- Employment
- Fulltime
- Experience
- 5 Years +
- Education
- Medical Degree
Responsibilities
- provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
- conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements
- maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies
- contribute to Consultant on-call rota (1 in 14)
- train and support multi-disciplinary teams
- engage in undergraduate teaching and act as an examiner
Requirements
- core clinical expertise in the field of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry
- experience and knowledge of running a specialty service
- participating in CPD including audit
- maintaining professional development for Revalidation
Benefits
- honorary academic title at a partner university
- opportunities for teaching and research activities
- working within a large health board
Key skills
Leadership
Team Building
Clinical Expertise
Community Psychiatric Care
Teaching And Training
Audit
Research
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- We are driven to support people with learning disability access a high standard of care for their presenting difficulties. The service has already implemented Dementia, Epilepsy, and PMLD pathways. Our Mental Health Pathway is currently in development.
As a service, we are committed to addressing health inequalities for people with learning disabilities and have developed a Primary Care Liaison service in addition to the general hospital LD Liaison team. These teams are also passionate educators working closely with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire People First in delivering sessions to groups including GP Trainees and Undergraduate medical students. These Teams are being further strengthened to create additional capacity and align to the wider Directorate support for Liaison and strengthen our earlier intervention and prevention model.
The post holder will provide specialist community psychiatric care to people with intellectual disabilities who reside within the county of Pembrokeshire. Pembrokeshire Community Team for Learning Disabilities
Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements: \-
To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality.
To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate.
To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies.
To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board’s service plans.
To contribute to the Consultant on\-call rota (1 in 14 rota).
To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board.
Core clinical expertise in the field of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry.
Experience and knowledge of running a specialty service.
Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multi\-disciplinary team.
Supporting and training multi\-disciplinary teams.
Participating in CPD including Audit.
You are expected to maintain your professional development for Revalidation.
A Teaching and Training role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates.
Supervisor role to Resident and Middle Grade Medical Staff.
To undertake regular multi\-disciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence based medicine.
Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and bordering counties.
We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in\-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.
We work in partnership the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.
Our services are provided in:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services
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 .
For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.
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