Consultant Psychiatrist in Recovery (Chelt and North)

We are excited to share a part time Consultant role has become available permanently within our Recovery team covering Cheltenham and North Cotswolds.

The Cheltenham and North Cotswolds Recovery team provide secondary care General Adult Psychiatric input to Cheltenham environs, alongside a selection of independent functional teams including Crisis Teams, Assertive Outreach, Early Intervention, Perinatal Service and the Eating Disorders teams.

Main duties of the job

This role is expected to work alongside the multidisciplinary team (MDT) including two other consultants. To provide medical leadership to the MDT and oversight to the work of the Specialty Doctor.

It is expected that this role will take part in a trust on call rota combined general adult/old age/CYPS and learning disability countywide, pro rata.

This post alongide the partner consultants and specialty doctor, covers around 110000 people in primary care within the Cheltenham Integrated Locality Partnership.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;


• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;


• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;


• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative


Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.