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Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry Community CMHT

Pennine Care NHS FT

CQC: Good

Bury

Salary

£109,725 – £145,478

Training post

No

Trust type

Acute

Posted

4 weeks ago

About the role

Job description is pending Royal College approval

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to make a substantive whole time appointment to this newly established post with Bury Mental Health Services. This post will cover a sector of the Bury area. The post has been created due to the current consultant moving to another job in the trust.

The Bury general adult psychiatry service (generally for people aged 16 to 64) has been run since 2008 according to a model whereby our team of consultants are deployed as follows: Three consultants work exclusively in the community and outpatient focus areas, one working with the Early Intervention Service, and two inpatient area including Home Treatment and two A&E Liaison Team. Also one consultant in Living Well.

Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry Community CMHT

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Within this arrangement, the consultant appointed to this post will work with other sector consultants (East, West and South sector community outpatients).

Main duties of the job This is a newly created post. This is an exciting time to join the Trust and there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations' innovation and for personal development. Bury has a very strong teaching commitment and candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching of medical and nursing staff. Patients will be seen in community clinics, at their own homes or in other clinical settings according to clinical need.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.

Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance

Access to Continued Professional Development

Involvement in improvement and research activities

Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service

Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Person specification

Essential

MBChB or equivalent
Must be on the GMC Specialist Register or be eligible to be on the GMC Specialist Register
Higher psychiatric training or its equivalent
Section 12 (2) Approval under Mental Health Act 1983 or be eligible for approval. Approved Clinician status (or eligible for same)
Evidence of teaching and training abilities.
Commitment to share the work of the department with colleagues, to develop and improve the service as a whole, and to the organisational philosophy
Registered for CPD with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Good communication skills
Evidence of audit activity
Available to participate in on-call rota

Desirable

Possession of MRCPsych or equivalent qualification
Other postgraduate degrees e.g. MSc, MD, MRCP etc
Possession of CCT or be within 6 months of achieving this
CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
Experience in detention of patients under The MHA (1983)
Experience of writing reports for the Mental Health Review Tribunals.
Current or past educational supervisor of a basic trainee and a specialist registrar
Evidence of leading the development of services elsewhere.

An interest in management and service development

In 'Good professional standing for CPD

Enthusiasm, demonstration of initiative and innovation.

Published audit and published research