Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry in Glasgow

Post:   CONSULTANT GENERAL ADULT PSYCHIATRY

base:   LEVERNDALE

Applications are invited from enthusiastic individuals for the above part time permanent post based at Leverndale Hospital in South Glasgow. The post is for 5 programmed activities per week and the post holder will assume responsibility for the care of patients within two adult continuing care wards in Leverndale hospital.

​​​​​​​Mental Health Services in Glasgow are delivered in conjunction with the Glasgow City HSCP and other outlying HSCPs for the whole of Greater Glasgow.  The Lead Associate Medical Director for Health and Learning Disability is Dr Martin Culshaw, who is based at Commonwealth House.  The Management Team for South Glasgow is based at Leverndale Hospital; the Head of Mental Health is Mr Colin MacDonald and the Clinical Director is Dr James Loudon.

Mental Health Services in South Glasgow provide care for a total population of 350,000. Community adult services are based in six Community Mental Health Resource Centres.  The acute inpatient beds are based across three wards at Leverndale Hospital. The regional Mother and Baby Mental Health Unit is housed on site in a new high quality unit. There are excellent clinical and non-clinical support services available including the full range of psychiatric sub-specialities. Community services are well established and based around generic community mental health teams enhanced by the Crisis teams, a First Episode Psychosis team (Esteem), a Perinatal team, an Eating Disorder team, Addictions teams and Primary Mental Health Care teams. In addition; a DBT service is located on the site in the MacLeod Centre.

Leverndale Hospital has 250 inpatient beds. This includes 72 acute general adult beds, 12 intensive psychiatric care unit beds, 11 rehabilitation unit beds, 58 acute old age psychiatry (18 organic and 40 functional), 48 forensic beds and  35 adult medium stay beds. There are also 150 long stay elderly dementia beds split between Darnley (60) and Rutherglen (90), and 63 adult long stay partnership beds.

There are 6 General Adult Resource Centres covering Gorbals/Govanhill, Castlemilk, Rutherglen/Cambuslang, Govan/Ibrox, Pollok/Pollokshields, and Barrhead/Eastwood. Child and Adolescent Services are based at the Twomax Building in the Gorbals and the inpatient beds are provided at the Skye Unit at Stobhill Hospital. Learning Difficulty assessment beds and 20 continuing care beds are based at Gartnavel Royal Hospital. There is also a Community Learning Disability Team based at

Informal enquiries will be welcomed by Dr James Loudon, Clinical Director (Tel: 0141 211 6602) or Mr Colin MacDonald, Head of Adult Services (Tel: 0141 211 6600).

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.