Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

This job is a unique opportunity to work as Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist/ Prison Inreach team within the Community Forensic psychiatry team, who are responsible for the management of those diagnosed with mental disorder in the criminal justice system, including those conditionally discharged from 37/41 restrictions, the bulk of whom live in supported placements. The role of the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist would be to provide psychiatric expertise, advice and leadership into the Community Forensic team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to liaise with other senior clinicians as and when necessary.
The post holder will be expected to -
Provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary community forensic mental health team.
Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of mentally ill offenders aged 18 and over referred from within the locality.
Provide input into HMP Parc prison for adults of working age via the prison inreach team.
Provide medical liaison and advice to the Forensic nurse practitioners and Criminal Justice liaison workers.
Provide advice on step-down to the High dependency rehabilitation unit from Low and Medium secure units
See attached JD and supporting information
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Interview date: 13th June 2024
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Contribute to the management of the service by attendance at appropriate committees and meetings, by involvement in audit and by taking on specific management roles which may, from time to time, be agreed.
Play an active role in the education and training of medical, nursing and other staff.
Maintain their professional knowledge base and competency by involvement in continuing professional development (CPD) and to take part in the Wales Revalidation Process which includes annual appraisals for the purposes of revalidation.
Take part in the consultant on-call rota within the Mental Health Directorate.
Undertake responsibilities under the Mental Health Act as a s.12 approved doctor and as an Approved Clinician.
Undertake responsibilities under the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.
see attached Full Detailed Job Description and supporting Documents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Full GMC Registration
S.12(2) approval.
Approved Clinician approval
On Specialist Register for Psychiatry or be within six months of the anticipated CCT/CESR if progress has been satisfactory and it is anticipated that the outcome of the final ARCP will recommend that training will be completed by the time the recommended CCT /CESR date is reached.
Desirable
MRCPsych or equivalent
Additional relevant postgraduate qualification
Relevant Clinical Qualification
Welsh Approved Clinician approval
Experience
Essential
Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
Higher training experience in psychiatry
Endorsement in Rehabilitation Psychiatry
Desirable
Experience of acting as Responsible Clinician
Management
Essential
Management and administrative experience
Ability to supervise staff effectively
Desirable
Experience of appraising staff
Evidence of service development
Evidence of formal management Training
Audit and Research
Essential
Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
Desirable
Evidence of original and relevant research in Speciality
Teaching
Essential
Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
Desirable
Experience of teaching medical students
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