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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 Swansea Bay University HB.

We are looking to recruit to a permanent Specialty Doctor post to join the Forge Community Mental Health Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of Adult Mental Health Services within this team.

Adult Mental Health services are based in Swansea and Neath & Port Talbot. The advertised post covers the Adult Mental Health CMHT, which is based at The Forge Centre, Neath Port Talbot.

The Health Board’s Adult Mental Health Services are divided into inpatient/crisis services (unscheduled care) and community services. Within the Forge CMHT the multidisciplinary team includes 1 Consultant Psychiatrist, 1 junior doctor, 2 team managers, 5 community psychiatric nurses, 5 social workers,1.5 community wellbeing officers, 1 occupational therapist, 1 psychologist and a part time advanced nurse practitioner trainee. There are also 1 medical secretary and 4 clerical staff. MDT working is integral to the functioning of several services, with the Local Authority Social Services team being integrated within the CMHT

You will provide a clinical service in conjunctions with your colleagues and under the direction of a Consultant Psychiatrist, which will include the responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.

Working with your colleagues and the multi-professional team you will have continuing responsibility for the well-being of all patients under your care; allowing for proper delegation to, and training of staff. In partnership with clinical and managerial colleagues you will also have responsibility for the safe, efficient and effective functioning of the services in which you work in line with the values, operational policies and integrated medium term plan (IMTP) of the Health Board. You are encouraged to consider how services can be improved and to report any concerns about safety.

You will be required to adhere to the principles of good medical practice as laid down by the guidance of ‘Good Medical Practice’ issued by the General Medical Council.

You may be expected to deputise for absent colleagues and in exceptional unforeseen circumstances may have to perform additional duties to ensure the safe running of the department. Where such duties take place outside your normal contracted duties, you will receive either an equivalent off duty period or will be remunerated appropriately.

You will be responsible for undertaking the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and the administration of the department.

Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people. 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. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot.

Mental Health and learning Disabilities services are provided both in hospital settings (Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea Caswell clinic and Taith Newydd at Glanrhyd Bridgend) and other community settings.

We also have community hospital and primary care resource centres providing clinical services outside the main hospitals.

The Health Board is part of A Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), which is a partnership with Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea University. Aimed at improving the wellbeing and wealth of Southwest Wales.

For more details in relation to this post, please click on the supporting documents section to find the full job description and person specification. These are available bilingually, in both English and Welsh.