# Specialty Doctor - Perinatal Psychiatry - Cluster 2

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Manchester
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Psychiatry
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £63,696 - £102,689 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08T15:12:26.025Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Bolton_Manchester/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8141766
- **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Greater Manchester Perinatal Service has been developed to deliver perinatal mental health care in an integrated manner across the whole system. This is an opportunity for a Specialty Doctor to join a well-established, reputable perinatal service that delivers perinatal mental health care in a unique manner based on a whole system approach.

The team consists of:
- 3 x Substantive Consultant Psychiatrists
- 1 x Specialty Doctor (this post)
- 1 x Core Trainee
- 1 x Team Manager
- Community Psychiatric Nurses
- OT
- Social Worker
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Community Nursery Nurses
- Psychologists
- Medical Secretaries
- Team Administrator

### Main duties of the job

- The Specialty doctor will be expected to hold a caseload and carry out antenatal and postnatal outpatient clinics
- Assess new patients and follow-up patients on the caseload
- Carry out MHA assessments as appropriate and respond to urgent requests from the team
- Support the team and carry out urgent home visits as they arise throughout the week.
- Liaise with social workers, specialist mental health midwives, care co-ordinators from other mental health teams, health visitors and other health and social care professionals involved in a patient’s care
- The Specialty doctor will be expected to engage in clinical supervision and discuss cases at the weekly MDT
- To complete contemporaneous notes and complete referrals in a timely manner
- The Specialty doctor will be expected to give advice to GPs around medication in the perinatal period
- The Specialty doctor will be expected to raise safeguarding concerns appropriately and action social care referrals in a timely manner

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details about this role and the responsibilities please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge

### Eligibilty

**Essential**

- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 624.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10440508)
- [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931)

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