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Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry - Outpatients
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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 Oldham Mental Health Services. This post will cover the Central sector within the Oldham area. The post has been created due to the current consultant moving to another job in the trust.
The Oldham 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 areas including Home Treatment and two A&E Liaison Team. Also one consultant in Living Well.
Within this arrangement, the consultant appointed to this post will work with other sector consultants (East, West and South sector community outpatients).
Responsibilities
* This is a newly created post. The Consultant will cover the central sector within the Oldham area.
* Patients will be seen in hospital and community clinics, at their own homes or in other clinical settings according to clinical need.
* Outpatient clinics are held at the Cherrywood Clinic on the Royal Oldham Hospital site and at the Werneth Primary Care Centre. Werneth Primary Care Centre is 1.5 miles from the hospital.
* The consultant in this post will work with the East, South and West Sector CMHTs and also with the Care Management and Review Team, which is a sub-team working across both CMHTs and which supports people with more stable but long term mental illnesses.
* The Consultants contribute to local service user & carer groups.
* The Central sector covers the areas of South and East Oldham (Chadderton; Royton and Shaw; Delph, Uppermill, Lees, Ashton Under Lyne).
* Oldham borough has a new state of the art TMS suite. This is the only NHS provider for this service in the North West.
* Oldham 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 such as Bright Mind, FreshSTART, Gamechange to name a few.
* 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.
Qualifications and expectations
* The role requires a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry with appropriate registration and credentials to practice in the UK.
* The post holder is expected to demonstrate a strong teaching commitment and contribute to the education of medical and nursing staff.
* Engagement with research activity and clinical innovation is encouraged through links to ongoing projects.
Benefits and additional information
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
How to apply / Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Saleem Tareen
Job title: Clinical Director
Email address: saleem.tareen@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0161 716 2122
EEO statement
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.
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