Consultant in Psychiatry for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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Location: Llanion House, Pembroke Dock
We are driven to support people with learning disability to access a high standard of care for their presenting difficulties. The service has already implemented Dementia, Epilepsy, and PMLD pathways. Our Mental Health Pathway is currently in development.
As a service, we are committed to addressing health inequalities for people with learning disabilities and have developed a Primary Care Liaison service in addition to the general hospital LD Liaison team. These teams are also passionate educators working closely with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire People First in delivering sessions to groups including GP trainees and undergraduate medical students. These teams are being further strengthened to create additional capacity and align to the wider Directorate support for Liaison and strengthen our earlier intervention and prevention model.
The post holder will provide specialist community psychiatric care to people with intellectual disabilities who reside within the county of Pembrokeshire. Pembrokeshire Community Team for Learning Disabilities.
Responsibilities
* To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality.
* To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate.
* To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies.
* To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board’s service plans.
* To contribute to the Consultant on-call rota (1 in 14 rota).
* To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board.
* Core clinical expertise in the field of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry.
* Experience and knowledge of running a specialty service.
* Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Supporting and training multi-disciplinary teams.
* Participating in CPD including audit.
* Maintain professional development for revalidation.
* A teaching and training role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates.
* Supervisor role to resident and middle grade medical staff.
* To undertake regular multi-disciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence based medicine.
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Function
Health Care Provider
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
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