# Consultant Psychiatrist - Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Ashton Under Lyne
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Psychiatry
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 Pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-13T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13T07:31:14.304Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Bury/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychiatry/Psychiatry-v8101035
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8101035?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a full-time substantive Consultant Psychiatrist. This post is based on the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team Model in Bury 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. Bury 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.

### Main duties of the job

The Neighbourhood Mental Health Team 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 Neighbourhood Mental Health in Bury service, working across Bury 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 Bury area

To work with the other Consultants to support the development of the service, and to attend local and divisional service development meetings

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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).

## Person Specification

### Role requirements

**Essential**

- Satisfactory medical screening prior to taking up appointment
- MBChB or equivalent
- 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)
- Evidence of teaching and training abilities

**Desirable**

- Possession of MRCPsych or equivalent qualification. Other postgraduate degrees e.g. MSc, MD, MRCP etc.
- Possession of CCT or be within 6 months of achieving this
- Experience in detention of patients under The MHA (1983)
- Experience of writing reports for the Mental Health Review Tribunals.
- Current or past educational supervisor of a basic trainee and a specialist registrar
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Evidence of leading the development of services elsewhere

## Documents

- [person specification (pdf, 94.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10395183)
- [nmht job description (pdf, 894.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10401212)
- [policy statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 117.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=440)

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