NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
Applications are invited for Consultant in Older Adult Psychiatry who have completed CCT or are within 6 months of doing so with Section 22 AMP status.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our enthusiastic, patient centred and dynamic Liaison Older Adult Mental Health team which is part of the wider Glasgow City Old Age Liaison team and Greater Glasgow and Clyde Old Age Psychiatry family; the largest health board in Scotland. This offers many opportunities for quality improvement, teaching, training and research.
This 2 session post is primarily based in The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and the successful applicant will work alongside another experienced fulltime consultant old age psychiatrist in a newly expanded service serving the hospitals of the South of Glasgow. There is no on-call associated with this post.
The Glasgow City liaison team have a current total of 2.8 WTE Consultant psychiatrists, 8 band 6 liaison nurses, 1.5 WTE Psychology and a Nurse Team Lead. There is Admin support for the role. This post and another recently advertised post will increase the Consultant complement to 4 WTE across the North and South of Glasgow city older adult liaison.
The successful applicant will play a key role in the diagnosis and management of older people with mental health disorders in in the setting of an acute hospital site, working alongside Consultant psychiatry colleagues and the wider MDT. The clinical work is varied and will include general hospital assessment and management of older people with mental health needs, mental health act and adults with incapacity act work, attendance at case conferences and the provision of support and advice to other professionals within acute hospital. The successful candidate will take on a clinical leadership role and take part in ongoing service development within the wider Glasgow Older Adult liaison service.
For more information, please contact: Dr Ashley Fergie, CD OPMH, 0141 2116429, Ashley.Fergie@nhs.scot
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.

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