Job summary
- Main area
- Rehab Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (from 25th August 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 311-M225-25-A
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heathfield House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Locally Employed Doctor - Heathfield House
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
The Trust is seeking a Specialist Doctor to join Heathfield House to cover for the maternity leave of current post holder. This job will be available for up to a year starting from August 2025.
The unit is for patients having predominantly intractable severe and enduring mental illnesses, and who require a step-down rehabilitation before considering their discharge into community. Whilst some patients will have a history of risk to others, the predominant need at the time of admission is for rehabilitation and the management of their psychosis or affective disorders. The average length of stay for patients is two years.
Main duties of the job
· Provide the routine medical and psychiatric care to 19 inpatients. This will involve taking the initial histories, regularly reviewing the patients’ mental state and physical health, writing prescriptions, collecting and compiling information from other sources re: previous psychiatric history, medication history, and risk events, writing admission summaries within 2 weeks of admission, and discharge summaries no less than 2 weeks prior to discharge, writing reports for CPA reviews, and letters.
· The appointee must participate in multi-disciplinary team working and be comfortable with this kind of working environment. It is the policy that all treatment decisions, apart from emergencies, are decided in the Clinical Team Meetings, where the various treatment protocols and parameters are set, and contingency plans are put in place to enable the different disciplines to operate with a consistent approach but with sufficient flexibility to respond according to the patient’s needs. As far as possible the whole care plan is reached by consensus.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Assess a proportion of the patients referred to the service (including the other units) in the setting from where they are referred, including prisons, independent hospitals and other NHS providers. Assessments will be reported back to the multi-disciplinary referrals meeting for discussion, before a final decision is conveyed to the referrer. Providing advice to referrers. These duties will be under supervision and will not be undertaken at the detriment to the routine care provided to the Step-down units.
· Regularly assess the clinical state of the inpatients and be involved in psychological and/or family-based therapies, depending on the appointee’s agreement, training and interests.
· Undertake routine admission and emergency physical health assessments/examinations/investigations, in keeping with guidance on the physical monitoring of long-stay inpatients.
· Attend regular detailed Care Programme Approach meetings along with the consultant to review progress to date and set longer term goals, in consultation with family/carers and Care Coordinators
· Attend weekly Clinical Team Meetings and contribute to the multi-disciplinary review of the patients. The aim is to review progress and to set short-term goals in keeping with the longer-term goals set by the CPA review.
· Attend Clinical Governance meetings and contribute to the clinical governance of the unit. Consequently, the appointee will be expected to be involved in audit, according to the Trust policy on Audit (available on request), adhere to the various Trust policies on complaints, risk assessment and management, confidentiality etc.
Adhere to an annual appraisal process (or more frequently if required) in line with national guidance
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
- MBBS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MRCPsych or equivalent
Clinical experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 4 year’s experience in post graduate training in the UK or equivalent
- Working extensively in multi-disciplinary teams in general adult psychiatry at basic trainee level.
- Evidence of an ability to develop clinical systems to safely and efficiently manage patient care.
Desirable criteria
- Working extensively in multi-disciplinary teams in rehabilitation psychiatry or forensic psychiatry at basic trainee level.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amar Gupta
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01617163619
- Additional information
Dr Saravana Subbian
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