Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant - Home Treatment Team - Adult
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week (Hours to be worked 09:00hrs - 17:00hrs Mon-Fri plus on-calls)
- Job ref
- 311-M220-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tameside General Hospital - Mental Health
- Town
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 PA, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant - Home Treatment Team - Adult
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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
Consultant Home Treatment Team Working Age Psychiatry
We are seeking a knowledgeable, driven, and forward-thinking consultant to join our sector- based working age service in Tameside. The post is available for 10 PAs. The holder will be responsible for patients under the Home Treatment Team for Working Age patients in Tameside and Glossop. This is a new post, the team having previously worked with the respective sector consultants. Please see Job Description.
This is an exciting time to join the Trust, there are many opportunities to contribute to the organisations’ development and to look at service redesign models. Tameside has a strong teaching commitment and candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching of medical and nursing staff and 4th medical students. There are close links with ongoing research projects. The Consultants contribute to local service user & carer groups.
Main duties of the job
Consultant – GA – Home Treatment Team
The post covers the geographic area of Tameside and Glossop. The post holder will be responsible for all patients under the Home Treatment Team (HTT). The team is currently small, with capacity for 15-20 patients who need home treatment as an alternative to admission or who are being transitioned to the community from the ward. However, the plan is for the team to develop and grow capacity to provide a service for patients in crisis. The post holder will negotiate a timetable with the Line Manager. For further details please see job description.
We offer ample opportunities for our consultants’ professional development and opportunities for additional work for additional PAs (require negotiation).
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
‘Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.’
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych
- Additional clinical qualifications.
ELIGIBILITY
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
TRANSPORT
Essential criteria
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Ability to work in and lead team
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
Desirable criteria
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Elizabeth Elvin
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Tameside & Glossop
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 716 3252
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