Adults Mental Health Service Consultant

About the Role

We are looking for an Older Adults Mental Health Service Consultant to join a caring and committed team delivering high quality services to our later life population in West Wales. As an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist you will work across the pathway of primary, community and specialist secondary care, ensuring continuity of care for older adults with mental ill health.

• Assess patients at the initial referral stage, whether in the patient’s home, care home, or in clinic.
• Lead multidisciplinary team (MDT) formulation of risk and treatment plans.
• Provide ongoing management of episodes of later life mental ill health.
• Clinically lead admission to the older adults mental health ward when appropriate.
• Coordinate care with General Adult services, GH, and local mental health liaison services.
• Maintain continuity of care for patients admitted to General Hospital, ensuring seamless transition.

• Knowledge and experience of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health (Wales) Measure.
• Section 12 MHA and Approved Clinician status.
• Experience managing functional and organic disorders in later life.
• Ability to work collaboratively across service and specialty boundaries.
• Strong commitment to continual professional development and research.

If you are a registered health care professional and are considering relocating to the Hywel Dda area in West Wales, please contact our recruitment campaigns team directly via recruitment@.

Hywel Dda University Health Board welcomes applications from all sections of society and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We are the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. We employ around 11,000 staff and provide a wide range of primary, community, in‑hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for approximately 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.