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Specialty Doctor in Adult Psychiatry

Employer
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Location
Forge Centre, Port Talbot
Closing date
4 Dec 2020

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Profession
Specialist doctor, Psychiatry
Grade
Specialty doctor
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time

Job Details

Do you share our health board values; Caring for each other; working together; always improving? If so we would love for you to come and work for SBU HB.

Swansea Bay NHS Health Board provides a broad range of community and inpatient services. The Health Board is one of the largest in Wales and the UK. The Mental Health Directorate is responsible for providing Adult Mental Health Services, Older People Mental Health Services, Substance Misuse Services, Forensic Psychiatry and Rehabilitation & Recovery Services.

SBU HB is committed to delivering quality driven mental Health services and we encourage applications from enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to apply for our Specialty Doctor vacancy in Adult Psychiatry based in Forge centre, Port Talbot. Adult Mental Health services are based in Swansea, Neath & Port Talbot and Bridgend. The advertised post covers the Community Mental Health Team which is based at Forge Centre, Port Talbot.

The Health Board's Adult Mental Health Services are divided into inpatient/Crisis services (unscheduled care) and community services. The Neath Port Talbot locality currently has one inpatient psychiatric admission ward (Ward F, Neath Port Talbot Hospital), Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service, two Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT's), these are North NPT (Gelligron) and South NPT (Forge). The CMHTs are multi professional with both Local Authority and Health Service Staff. The post-holder will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team to ensure continuity of the care pathway from inpatient to community care. This is a 10 session post with no on call commitment.

Swansea Bay University Local Health Board has responsibility for the health of over 500,000 people and is one of the largest providers of integrated healthcare in the UK. With a budget of over £1 billion and employing 17,000 people the Health Board provides acute, tertiary, intermediate, mental health, community and primary care services to people in Neath, Port Talbot, Swansea and beyond. We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science.

Port Talbot is situated near Swansea which is Wales' second-largest city, and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay. An ideal base for exploring south-west Wales, there's also much on offer for visitors in Swansea itself. Swansea has a range of shops, cozy cafes, great restaurants, art galleries as well as being able to offer good outdoor lifestyle with its beautiful coastline and beaches on the Gower Peninsula. Swansea also has excellent sporting facilities including the Wales National pool and liberty stadium home to the Ospreys and Swansea city Premier football club.

For further details / informal visits contact:

NameDr Kerine Robertson,Job titleConsultant PsychiatristTelephone number01639 862970Additional contact information

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, you are encouraged to contact Dr Kerine Robertson, Consultant Psychiatrist on 01639 862970.

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