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Pennine Care NHS FT; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 122,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a substantive Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry (Outpatients). The post covers the central sector in Oldham, with strong teaching commitments and links to several research initiatives.

The appointee will work across hospital and community settings, contributing to patient care and service development. The role emphasizes extensive clinical work in adult psychiatry, with opportunities to teach, engage in innovation, and participate

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in adult psychiatry including management of complex cases.
• Proven ability to teach medical and nursing staff and contribute to research projects.

Responsibilities

• Cover the central sector in Oldham for general adult outpatient psychiatry.
• Work with East, South and West Sector CMHTs and Care Management and Review Team.
• Contribute to teaching and research activities and to service development.

Skills

Adult psychiatry knowledge

Clinical assessment

Education

Medical degree

Higher degree in medical education/research/management

Job description

Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry - Outpatients | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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 area 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).

Main duties of the job

This is a newly created post. The Consultant will cover thecentral sectorwithin the Oldham area.This is an exciting time to join the Trust and there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations' innovation and for personal development.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we’re a great place to work.

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.

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

Person SpecificationMedical Degree

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

GMC registration

• Full registration with GMC
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Specialisr register

• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.

AC status

• Approved Clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

S12 approval

• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Knowledge in psychiatry

• Excellent knowledge in adult psychiatry including knowledge and experience of a range of conditions and complex psychological problems
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Sep 2026