Specialty Doctor - Adult Psychiatry Inpatient - Salford

Overview

This is a full-time appointment for a Specialty Doctor in psychiatry to work with the community mental health team for older adults. They will cover the East Cluster within Salford. This covers predominantly Broughton, Swinton, Pendlebury and Prestwich Village. The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr N Sultana.

• The appointee is not required to participate in an on-call rota. However, this can be negotiated if the successful candidate wants to do on calls.
• The post holder would join the clinical team that currently supports East of Salford. The base would be in Swinton, and they will be supervised by Dr N Sultana.
• The post holder will liaise with the other medical colleagues within the Salford area and support the community team with clinical activity that covers meetings, CPAs, professionals’ meetings, and other Mental Health Act related activity.
• The post holder will review patients presenting to MATs clinics and complete home visits for MATS and CMHT patients.
• The post holder will be expected to Diagnose and formulate management plans with supervision as required.
• The post holder will be expected to be a Section 12 Approved clinician. We will support the post holder to obtain S12 or AC approval if this is required.
• Work in a collaborative way with multidisciplinary teams including external partners and Work in partnership with local GP
• Assessment and management of risk including of vulnerability, suicide risk, risks to health and safety and risk of harm to others.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

For further details / informal visits contact:
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Dr Mehran Javeed

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