Overview
The Living Well psychiatrist will offer expert advice to GPs for patients not currently open to secondary care mental health services. The service will advise about medication, signposting to other services and specialties, as well as clinical management and diagnostic advice. The service will be provided on a daily basis, Monday to Friday.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a full‑time substantive Consultant Psychiatrist based on the Living Well model in Oldham. The post is a Community post and the post holder will be based at the Cherrywood Outpatients Clinic, Royal Oldham Hospital.
Oldham operates an Inpatient‑Outpatient model (New Ways of Working) staffed by six full‑time Consultants in Adult Psychiatry. Each Community Consultant is allocated a Junior Doctor to work with them, supported by an advanced practitioner and sessional input from a speciality doctor. The EIT is covered by a part‑time consultant.
Responsibilities
* Offer expert advice to GPs for patients not currently open to secondary care mental health services.
* Advise on medication, signpost to other services and specialties, and provide clinical management and diagnostic advice.
* Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team across Oldham.
* Develop and expand the team, deliver training to new team members, and champion the service with other stakeholders.
* 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 in the Oldham area.
* Support the development of the service and attend local and divisional service development meetings.
* Contribute to the teaching of medical and nursing staff.
* Contribute to local service user and carer groups.
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