Consultant Psychiatrist in South Glos Inpatient Rehabilitation/PCLS: Sponsorship Available

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable

  • Relevant Higher Degree e.g MD,PHD,Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
  • MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Eligibility

Essential

  • Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
  • Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
  • Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable

  • CCT in General Adult Psychiatry

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of assessing and treating patients in a community setting.
  • Knowledge and evidence of participation in CPD
  • Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement

Personal Skills

Essential

  • To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
  • Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
  • Ability to appraise own performance as a Consultant.
  • Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Desirable

  • Evidence of specific achievements that demonstrate leadership skills

Clinical Skills

Essential

  • Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in Adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.
  • Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of alternatives to inpatient admission care approaches

Teaching

Essential

  • Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.

Desirable

  • Experience as an Educational Supervisor for trainees

Research and Audit

Essential

  • Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
  • Experience of carrying out an audit project.

Management

Essential

  • Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

Desirable

  • Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 16 November 2026

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