General Practitioner with Special Interest

The post holder will be employed by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to provide 2 to 4 sessions to the Physical Healthcare Hubs (PHU), Referral assessment hubs (RAH), Neighbourhood (NHT)/Living Well service. The post holder will be expected to work independently to provide secondary mental health provision for clinical and medical needs of the patients on psychotropic medication.

RAH/PHU/NHT works with people who are meeting the threshold for secondary care mental health teams, or who have declined/not responded to primary care mental health interventions either due to levels of complexity or uncertainty regarding their clinical presentation/additional needs.

Key Tasks

• To provide a comprehensive mental health assessment, this will involve taking a full
• psychiatric history and mental state examination.
• To develop a management plan to address the mental health needs which may include
• medication and signposting to other services.
• To provide and comprehensive risk assessment and risk management plan.
• To record all information on the electronic patient record system.
• To advise regarding any medical.

To provide follow-up appointments to monitor health and risk.

To identify any Physical Health needs that may require further investigation from patients

own GP.

For those patients with complex needs and high risk to liaise directly with secondary mental

health services across services in Manchester.

To discharge patients when no further intervention is required.

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: Name: Dr Pushpi

ndr Ssidhu Job title: Clinical Director Email address: Pushpindr.Ssidhu@gmmh.nhs.uk