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Job overview

We are looking to recruit to vacant Clinical Fellow posts within Hywel Dda University Health Board and you will join colleagues in a very dynamic and forward looking organisation where there will be opportunities to develop special areas of interest and possibly rotate into different areas.

Applicants must possess full registration with the GMC with a licence to practise or be in the and should process of receiving this and have a GMC reference number.  You must have completed at least 2 years internship, and have an interest in Psychiatry.   Candidates should have equivalent experience and competencies.  

Main duties of the job

HDUHB is currently actively engaged in an innovative Mental Health Transformation programme and a proactive member of the International Mental Health Collaborating Network.  In 2015 HDUHB established a new International Twinning Collaboration Convention with Trieste Mental Health Service Department in Italy. 

The Health Board provides Mental Health and Learning Disabilities services to people across West Wales.   In recent years Consultant Psychiatrists have re-organised along “New ways of working” structures.  Mental health services include conventional CMHT and inpatient units, Assertive Outreach Teams, Crisis Resolution Teams and developing Liaison Services. Within Wales the Health Board has a high profile in developing psychological approaches with a specialist Personality Disorder Service, Early Onset Psychosis and an Eating Disorder Community Service.  Additionally there are Health Board wide Substance Misuse and Community Forensic Services.  Admission units are based within District General Hospitals and specialist services in Hafan Derwen, Carmarthen.  Clinical services on the Hafan Derwen site include an Intensive Care Unit, and a Low Secure Unit (Cwm Seren).  The in-patient units for LD are situated alongside Cwm Seren.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.