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Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult - CMHT

Pennine Care NHS FT

CQC: Good

Bury

Salary

£109,725 – £145,478

Training post

No

Trust type

Acute

Posted

2 weeks ago

About the role

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a full-time substantive Consultant Psychiatrist. This post is based on the CMHT in Bury and is a Community post.

This is an exciting time to join the Trust and there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations' development and to look at service redesign models. Bury has a very strong teaching commitment and candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching of medical and nursing staff. There are close links to ongoing research projects. The Consultants contribute to local service user & carer groups.

To provide high-quality Mental Health Care for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems within the community

Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult - CMHT

Pennine Care NHS FT

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To work closely with other teams and Consultants to ensure coherent and high-quality mental health care for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems within the Bury area

To work with the other Consultants to support the development of the service, and to attend local and divisional service development meetings

The post holder will be based at the Irwell Unit, Fairfield General Hospital. Bury operates an Inpatient- Outpatient model (New Ways of Working) and is staffed by 6 full-time Consultants in Adult Psychiatry. Each Community Consultant is allocated a Junior Doctor (NW Deanery training schemes) to work with them with support from advanced practitioner and sessional input from a speciality doctor. The EIT is covered by a part time consultant.

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.

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