Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult - Early Intervention

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Milnrow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to provide high-quality mental health care to adults in Rochdale. The candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary team, contribute to teaching, and support service development. This role offers the opportunity to engage in innovative practices and service redesign, ensuring coherent mental health support for patients with severe and enduring issues.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in psychiatric care.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality mental health care to adults.
• Contribute to teaching medical and nursing staff.
• Participate in local research projects.

Job description

To provide consultant psychiatric input to a high functioning community EIS as part of a multi-disciplinary service. The role is to provide a comprehensive assessment and NICE concordant treatment package of care to all patients.

To provide high-quality Mental Health Care for adults following the EIS frameworks and 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 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (Rochdale borough) area.

The successful candidate will work with the MDT to support the development of the service, and to attend local and divisional service development meetings. 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.

Responsibilities and Requirements

Rochdale 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.

What We Offer

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople. The post holder will be based at the Outpatients department Birch Hill Hospital Rochdale. Rochdale operates an Inpatient- Outpatient model (New Ways of Working) and is staffed by 9 full-time Consultants in Adult Psychiatry and old age psychiatry and a nurse consultant on the female adult ward.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.

If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post. If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please contact us at the earliest opportunity.

Application and Recruitment Process

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.