Consultant Psychiatrist - South Gloucestershire
Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist looking for an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership and shape the future of mental health services?
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care and driving innovation across our services. We are seeking a motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to join our South Gloucestershire locality, working across two key services: the Inpatient Open Rehabilitation Unit at 37 Whittucks Road, Hanham, and the Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) at Kingswood Civic Centre.
This varied role offers the opportunity to influence care across inpatient and community settings. Within the Rehabilitation Unit, you will provide clinical and medical leadership, supporting the development of rehabilitation services across South Gloucestershire and BNSSG.
In the PCLS, you will strengthen an established multidisciplinary team, helping to meet growing demand, expand clinical capacity, and improve access to specialist mental health support within primary care.
Join a forward-thinking Trust where your expertise, leadership and ideas will help shape services and improve outcomes for the communities we serve.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across two established services within South Gloucestershire: the Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS) and the Inpatient Open Rehabilitation Unit.
Within PCLS, you will provide specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for service users in the community, undertaking both initial medical assessments and follow-up reviews. You will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team, attending daily triage and clinical discussion meetings, providing medical expertise to support patient care, and offering advice and guidance to GPs and other healthcare professionals.
Within the Open Rehabilitation Unit, you will provide consultant leadership and comprehensive psychiatric care to inpatients, including direct and indirect clinical care, supervision of junior medical staff, consultation with colleagues, and multidisciplinary working. You will also lead the review of out-of-area placements for BSW service users, working collaboratively with community teams, social care, and partner agencies to support repatriation to local services through personalised rehabilitation pathways and recovery-focused care plans.
The post offers opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership, service development, teaching, supervision, and quality improvement across both inpatient and community settings.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Please note that Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is not currently a sponsor under the GMC Sponsorship Scheme.
As a result, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require GMC sponsorship