Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
The closing date is 27 July 2025
This is a newpost that has come about as a result of service development. You will join awell-established Core 24 team covering a large teaching hospital in Coventryand two smaller district general hospitals in Warwick and Nuneaton. This postwill cover George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton with minimal cross cover at theother sites. We see age 17+ and have additional dementia psychiatrist supportonsite.
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.
CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels.
The benefits to joining CWPT are:
* Salary sacrifice scheme & discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme
* Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
* Coaching and mentoring
* Bespoke research & innovation department closely linked to local universities
* Four lovely substantive consultants who all get on with each other and with our wider team. Regular liaison medics social events.
* The opportunity to develop a special interest within liaison - we have someone into brain injury / T&O links, autism, NEAD, DKA / T1DE, dementia pathways & palliative care.
* Consistent allocation of two higher trainees to our team each rotation & likely another for this post
* No out of area bed use over the last 6 months
* A large well-established nursing team who are great at the risk assessment work
* An outpatient follow-up MDT with OT & psychology for functional disorders
* Service development / QI including massive improvement in our KPIs this year, ED triage & a proposal to expand our offer to support HIUs.
Job responsibilities
For further details of the post please consult the attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GMC registration and inclusion on the specialist register in Mental Health or Specialty Trainees within 6 months of completing CCT
* A postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry e.g. Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
* Eligible for Approved Clinician status and Approval under section 12 of the Mental Health Act
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.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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