Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job summary

This is a new post that has come about as a result of service development in keeping with the Core24 requirement.

As a Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry the postholder will join a team of Consultants providing comprehensive acute mental health services to Coventry & Warwickshire localities; participate in providing postgraduate training to the Coventry and Warwickshire Junior Doctor Training Scheme and undergraduate education for medical students from Warwick Medical School. You will require leadership and team building skills as well as clinical experience and educational ability.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites.

Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards and elderly care wards and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services.

CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme.

We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees.

We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.

There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a just a snapshot:

• NHS pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics
• Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
• Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline
• Staff networks and support groups
• Teaching opportunities
• Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism