Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry Community CMHT: Sponsorship Available

Pennine Care NHS FT

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBChB or equivalent

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 7 September 2026

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