Job summary
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 Bury Mental Health Services. This post will cover a sector of the Bury area. The post has been created due to the current consultant moving to another job in the trust.
The Bury 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
Main duties of the job
This is a newly created post. This is an exciting time to join the Trust and there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations' innovation and for personal development.
Bury has a very strong teaching commitment and candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching of medical and nursing staff.
Patients will be seen in community clinics, at their own homes or in other clinical settings according to clinical need.
About us
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 can to make sure 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification Medical Degree Essential
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
GMC registration Essential
- Full registration with GMC
Desirable
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Specialisr register Essential
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
AC status Essential
- Approved Clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
S12 approval Essential
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Knowledge in psychiatry Essential
- Excellent knowledge in adult psychiatry including knowledge and experience of a range of conditions and complex psychological problems
Desirable
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification Medical Degree Essential
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
GMC registration Essential
- Full registration with GMC
Desirable
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Specialisr register Essential
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
AC status Essential
- Approved Clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
S12 approval Essential
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Knowledge in psychiatry Essential
- Excellent knowledge in adult psychiatry including knowledge and experience of a range of conditions and complex psychological problems
Desirable
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Possession of MRCPsych or equivalent qualification
- Other postgraduate degrees e.g. MSc, MD, MRCP etc
Eligibility
Essential
- Must be on the GMC Specialist Register or be eligible to be on the GMC Specialist Register
- Higher psychiatric training or its equivalent
- Section 12 (2) Approval under Mental Health Act 1983 or be eligible for approval. Approved Clinician status (or eligible for same)
Desirable
- Possession of CCT or be within 6 months of achieving this
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
- Experience in detention of patients under The MHA (1983)
- Experience of writing reports for the Mental Health Review Tribunals.
Academic skills and lifelong learning
Essential
- Evidence of teaching and training abilities.
- Commitment to share the work of the department with colleagues, to develop and improve the service as a whole, and to the organisational philosophy
- Registered for CPD with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Good communication skills
- Evidence of audit activity
- Available to participate in on-call rota
Desirable
- Current or past educational supervisor of a basic trainee and a specialist registrar
- Evidence of leading the development of services elsewhere.
- An interest in management and service development
- In 'Good professional standing for CPD
- Enthusiasm, demonstration of initiative and innovation.
- Published audit and published research
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Possession of MRCPsych or equivalent qualification
- Other postgraduate degrees e.g. MSc, MD, MRCP etc
Eligibility
Essential
- Must be on the GMC Specialist Register or be eligible to be on the GMC Specialist Register
- Higher psychiatric training or its equivalent
- Section 12 (2) Approval under Mental Health Act 1983 or be eligible for approval. Approved Clinician status (or eligible for same)
Desirable
- Possession of CCT or be within 6 months of achieving this
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
- Experience in detention of patients under The MHA (1983)
- Experience of writing reports for the Mental Health Review Tribunals.
Academic skills and lifelong learning
Essential
- Evidence of teaching and training abilities.
- Commitment to share the work of the department with colleagues, to develop and improve the service as a whole, and to the organisational philosophy
- Registered for CPD with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Good communication skills
- Evidence of audit activity
- Available to participate in on-call rota
Desirable
- Current or past educational supervisor of a basic trainee and a specialist registrar
- Evidence of leading the development of services elsewhere.
- An interest in management and service development
- In 'Good professional standing for CPD
- Enthusiasm, demonstration of initiative and innovation.
- Published audit and published research
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
