Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult - Living Well | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Oldham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider based in Oldham is seeking a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to lead a multidisciplinary team in providing high-quality mental health care. The role involves expert consultation to GPs, service development, and educational training. Candidates must hold a GMC Specialist Registration or be nearing completion of their CCT in General Adult Psychiatry. Professional development opportunities are offered along with a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Must be on the GMC's Specialist Register or eligible.
• Candidates within six months of anticipated CCT award will be considered.
• Experience with community mental health care is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Offer expert advice to GPs and manage clinical care.
• Contribute to teaching and service development.

Skills

Expertise in General Adult Psychiatry

Strong communication skills

Experience in service development

Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams

Education

GMC’s Specialist Registration

CCT in General Adult Psychiatry

Job description

Job description is pending Royal College approval

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a full-time substantive Consultant Psychiatrist. This post is based on the Living well Model in Oldham 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. Oldam 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 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

The post holder will work with the Living Well in Oldham service, working across Oldham as a consultant psychiatrist, providing clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.

As this is a new and innovative service it is anticipated that some work would be managerial and consist of developing and expanding the team, delivering training to new team members, and championing the service with other stakeholders.

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

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 Oldham 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 Cherrywood Outpatients Clinic, Royal Oldham Hospital. Oldham 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.

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.

Low frequency on-call (1 in 31) with full second tier on call and 1 day off after your on call.

We offer ample opportunities for our consultants’ professional development and opportunities for additional work for additional PAs ( require negotiation).

This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Nov 2025