Consultant Psychiatrist within Rehabilitation Psychiatry

Consultant Psychiatrist within Rehabilitation Psychiatry

At Livewell Southwest, our mission is simple: to provide the best possible care and support, in the right place and at the right time, so people can live the fullest lives they can. If you share that purpose, we'd love to meet you.

A Role Designed for Flexibility

We recognise every day how precious life is. As a flexible-working-friendly organisation, we want you to thrive both professionally & personally. Talk to us about how we can support arrangements such as part time work or other flexible patterns. While the post has a designated office base, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we'll do our best to make it work for you.

Why Join Us?

Step into a role where your expertise is valued, your ideas are welcomed, and your career can genuinely flourish. You will be part of a forward thinking team committed to delivering high quality, recovery focused mental health care for the people of Plymouth. An advert can only tell part of the story. We'd be delighted to speak with you and share more about what makes this opportunity special.

Find Out More

For an informal conversation or further details, please contact:

Dr Leanne Tozer, Clinical Lead, or Teresa Barrett, Medical Workforce Manager on

Main duties of the job

About the Role

This new Consultant Psychiatrist post has been created following an expansion of our Rehabilitation Psychiatry service. The role provides clinical leadership across:

• The Specialist Outreach Recovery Team (SORT) - a well established, evolving community service supported by a full MDT, including a Specialty Doctor.
• A 9 bed female Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit - an open recovery unit supported by a Resident Doctor.

The combined inpatient and community focus ensures continuity of care as service users progress through their recovery journey, while giving clinicians greater flexibility and autonomy in clinical decision making.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:

• Protected CPD time for staff
• Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
• A bespoke induction programme
• Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Royal College of Psychiatry endorsed Job Description - Consultant Psychiatrist within Rehabilitation Psychiatry

Person Specification Qualifications

• Eligibility for full registration with GMC with a licence to practice.
• Inclusion on the Specialist Register in Psychiatry at the time of taking up the Post (Specialist Registrars applying in advance must be within six months of their CCT at the point of being interviewed).
• Eligibility for Section 12 and Approved Clinician Approval.
• Extensive experience in Community /Adult Psychiatry essential
• RCPsych endorsement in Rehabilitation or Addiction Psychiatry
• Higher academic Qualification (MSc, PhD or other relevant higher qualifications).
• Specialist areas e.g. Asylum Seeker Service, Personality disorder, Eating disorders, Asperger's and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
• Qualification in Teaching & Learning.

Experience

• Knowledge of Mental Health legislation
• Participation in Continual Professional Development
• Ability to offer expert psychiatric opinion on full range of emergency and routine clinical situations
• Experience in community outreach psychiatry, experience in working in a Community/Rehabilitation/In patient Mental Health Team and CPA
• Experience in Rehabilitation Adult Psychiatry is desirable

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Clinical Lead - Rehabilitation Psychiatry