Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult - Early Intervention | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a dedicated Consultant Psychiatrist to join a forward-thinking NHS Trust in Rochdale. This role focuses on delivering high-quality mental health care to adults within a vibrant community setting, working alongside a multi-disciplinary team. You'll be integral in providing comprehensive assessments and NICE concordant treatments while contributing to service development and teaching initiatives. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and innovation, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the lives of those with severe and enduring mental health challenges. Join us in shaping the future of mental health services in Rochdale.

Qualifications

• Must be on GMC's Specialist Register or eligible for inclusion.
• Expected to contribute to teaching medical and nursing staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality mental health care for adults following EIS frameworks.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure coherent mental health care.

Skills

Consultant Psychiatrist

Mental Health Care

Assessment Skills

Multi-disciplinary Teamwork

Education

GMC Specialist Registration

CCT in General Adult Psychiatry

Job description

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

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.

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.

To 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. 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.

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. Each Consultant Psychiatrist is allocated a Junior Doctor (NW Deanery training schemes) to work with them.

Applicants must be on the GMC's Specialist Register or eligible for inclusion or be within six months' of the anticipated award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Adult Psychiatry at the time of interview for the post.