Consultant Psychiatrist - Community

Job Summary

• Provide clinical expertise and leadership to a defined multidisciplinary adult community mental health team.
• Provide specialist assessment and clinical management of adult patients in the community.
• Manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff, assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
• Ensure junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
• Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.

Welsh and English speakers welcome to apply.

The post may close early if sufficient applications received.

Interview Date: 14th April 2026.

Responsibility for the provision of Adult Mental Health Services in the area of North Bridgend (approximate population 55,000 adults). A second catchment area Consultant Psychiatrist currently in post will provide services for the population of Bridgend South.

Responsible for the application of the Mental Health Act when applied by the post holder to their patients.

Work collaboratively with other Adult Mental Health Services.

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 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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

• Date posted: 08 January 2026
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade: Consultant
• Salary: £110,240 to £160,951 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 110-MD360-0725-D
• Job locations: Maesteg Hospital, Ewenny Road, Maesteg, CF34 9PW

• Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
• Participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
• Participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
• Attend and participate in the Academic Programme of the Health Board, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD Programme.
• Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, to work within the framework of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure and to abide by professional codes of conduct.

• Full GMC Registration.
• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Approved Clinician Approval.
• Comprehensive training and experience in psychiatry.
• Higher training experience in psychiatry.
• Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
• Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• Management and Administration Experience.
• Ability to supervise staff effectively.
• Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
• Evidence of having delivered Post Graduate teaching.

• Additional relevant postgraduate qualification.
• Relevant clinical qualification.
• Welsh Clinician approval.
• Experience of Acting as Responsible Clinician.
• Evidence of service-wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice.
• Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality.
• Experience of appraising staff.
• Evidence of formal management training.
• Evidence of teaching medical students.

• Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance.
• Evidence of having undertaken audit relevant to speciality.
• Proven capability to initiate and undertake original work.
• Evidence of service-wide audit with significant and lasting impact on practice.
• Evidence of original and relevant research in speciality.

• Management and Administration Experience.
• Ability to supervise staff effectively.
• Evidence of having delivered multi-disciplinary teaching.
• Evi…