Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry

Job Overview

The post holder will support the Liaison Team with input to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, the local DGH. Starting from the single point of access, liaison nursing staff will screen referrals and allocate appropriately to adult, older adult or alcohol liaison Band 6 nurses. Sometimes assessments are carried out jointly including with the team Occupational Therapist or Specialty doctor. The post holder will help with assessments where required and supervise assessments helping with diagnosis/formulation of patients’ problems and ensuring a clear management plan is available and well documented in patients’ notes and communicated with the relevant teams.

Ensuring an updated management plan is available for all patients open to the liaison team would be an important function of the daily board round. On average the liaison team receives approximately 300 referrals per month with equal distribution between day-time and night-time referrals. All of these referrals will be seen by the Nursing team, overseen by the post holder.

Main duties of the job

General Duties

• To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Health Board’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
• To ensure that junior medical staff, working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
• To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
• To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the necessary department.
• To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
• To participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
• To attend and participate in the academic programme of the Health Board, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme.
• To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act 1983 Section 12(2) approval, to work within the legal framework of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 and to abide by professional codes of conduct.

Working for our organisation

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) is Wales’s largest health organisation, with a budget of over £2.4 billion and a workforce of over 20,000 staff.

BCUHB provides a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and specialist hospital services for the population of North Wales, across 3 acute hospitals and a network of community hospitals, health centres, clinics, and mental health units. It also co-ordinates or provides the work of GP practices and NHS services provided by dentists, opticians, and pharmacists across the region.

The Health Board is an integrated health system that strives for excellent, compassionate care delivered in partnership with the public sector and other statutory and third sector organisations.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Candidates are encouraged to refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

If you are ready to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare in North Wales and possess the skills and experience required for this role, we invite you to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GMC Specialist Registration or obtaining CCT within 6 months of interview date
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCPsych or equivalent qualification approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Welsh Approved Clinician status or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Approved under section 12 or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

Desirable criteria

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of training in the core and evidence in working with adults, older adults and patients with substance misuse difficulties
• Evidence of having delivered postgraduate teaching
• Evidence of having delivered multidisciplinary teaching

Desirable criteria

• Experience in leading a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of community psychiatric practice
• Experience of teaching medical students
• Evidence of having undertaken a relevant audit project
• Evidence of research in mental health care
• A good knowledge base of medicine and qualification to highlight training in the interphase between physical and mental health

Knowledge And Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Demonstrate ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrate good communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal
• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work
• Evidence of research in mental health care
• Evidence of commitment and enthusiasm to provide Liaison Psychiatry Service

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of ability to develop and utilise links with service users
• Evidence of ability to build working relationship with colleagues
• Evidence of ability to improve and/or develop a service

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to meet the needs of the service
• Acknowledge and commitment to the Health Boards Values
• Flexibility as and when required

Desirable criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh or commitment to learn the Welsh language