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GP with special interest | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £73,113 - £110,330 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham, OL1 2JH |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6953057/311-M191-25 |
Summary
As part of Oldham Psychological Medicine Services (OPMS) ongoing innovative work, an exciting new opportunity has arisen for a GP with special interest. This is a substantive, part time appointment which would fit alongside other roles. The post holder would work with the current OPMS leadership team to develop the clinical intervention, which would focus on people with persistent physical symptoms, alongside high healthcare utilisation and complex polypharmacy. The post holder would a member of the psychological medicine team, including psychiatric and therapy colleagues, and would have the opportunity to co work where appropriate. The post holder would have space dedicated to developing links with primary care in order to maximise the benefit of the proposed intervention, as well as supporting OPMS in it’s educational work.
The broad aim of OPMS is to support people with complex health needs, and those who care for them including professionals. The aim is to bridge the gap between physical and mental health care, and primary and secondary care. The service is for patients aged 16 and over.
The role will include implementation, delivery and evaluation of the service by working closely with the other clinicians and managers involved and supported by the OPMS.
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
· Clinical
The post holder will deliver a psychologically informed service to people identified by the MDT who would benefit from a GP intervention. This may include people with significant medical complexity and polypharmacy. They will be expected to work with the person’s own GP to develop cohesive care plans which take into account the persons biopsychosocial formulation.
• Liaison
The post holder will liaise with Primary Care clinicians and managers and Primary and Secondary Care Mental Health Services (including substance misuse services) amongst others. This may involve case discussion with Primary Care staff. There may also be liaison with clinicians working in primary care networks including practice nursing staff, social care professionals and community healthcare staff.
· Education & training
This will involve identifying the learning needs of Primary Care and Primary Care Mental Health staff and others and developing a suitable educational and training approach to be delivered in a variety of formats and settings. As a GP the post holder will also be involved in the training of local mental health staff, including within PCMS.
· Management
The post holder will attend relevant project planning meetings as well as other Pennine Care Oldham Cares events that support the delivery of the project.
• Service Development
The post holder will take an active role in developing this area of work with the support of the team lead, rest of the team, IAPT services, the Psychological Medicine Service, Pennine Care and local commissioners.
• Evaluation
Clinician and patient rated outcome measures, patient rated experience measures and health care utilization data will be collected. The amount and impact of educational activity will be evaluated. This will be done with the support of existing Pennine Care structures.
This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Feb 2025