A new consultant post in working-age community psychiatry, with 10 PAs, covering the Ashton-under-Lyne sector of the North Community Mental Health Team. The post holder takes on community care for all psychiatric patients in the sector, while ward work goes to dedicated inpatient consultants. The role leads the multidisciplinary team clinically, manages complex cases and takes a lead part in sector referral decisions. Fit depends on GMC registration with a licence to practise, with Specialist Register entry and approved clinician status to follow within set periods.
What the job involves
- Provide community psychiatric care for all patients in the Ashton-under-Lyne sector
- Lead the North CMHT clinically, including individual cases and the team's clinical targeting
- Manage complex cases, including care plans and treatment formulation
- Give guidance on evidence-based treatment and its effectiveness
- Lead decisions on sector referrals, attending weekly referral meetings with CMHT management
- Hold outpatient clinics for patients from Ashton-under-Lyne
- Negotiate a timetable with the line manager
- Share access to all service facilities and work closely with the multidisciplinary team and community teams
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at appointment
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register, or within six months
- Approved clinician status and S12 approval, or achieved within 3 months
Experience
- Participation in research or service evaluation
- Participation in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
- Participation in continuing professional development
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent knowledge of the specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Evidence-based decisions that include others' contributions, and able to appraise clinical evidence
- Able to meet duties under the MHA and MCA
Checks & eligibility
- Valid UK driving licence, or evidence of a proposed alternative
Other
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Able to work in and lead a team, with commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working
Nice to have
- Higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- MRCPsych or other additional clinical qualifications
- Good GMC standing, free of warnings or conditions on practice
- Wide specialist and sub-specialist experience in the NHS or a comparable service
- Planning and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching relevant to the post
- Experience in clinical research or service evaluation, with awards, presentations or publications
- Led clinical audits that brought service change or better patient outcomes
- Reflection on the purpose of CPD undertaken
What’s offered
- Generous annual leave for Agenda for Change and medical and dental staff
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to continuing professional development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and wellbeing activities and access to a staff wellbeing service
- Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
