Clinical Lead - Smithfield Detoxification Service

Job description

Job responsibilities

As the Specialist Doctor / Clinical Lead for the service, you will provide safe, effective and evidence-based care and interventions to service users admitted to the unit. Your caseload will be complex, often treating service users with co-occurring conditions, and you will oversee detoxification and stabilisation regimes for a range of substances, including alcohol, opiates, benzodiazepines and others.

You will have a key role in clinical leadership, comprising clinical governance and innovation, supervision, appraisal and training and service development. You will also link in with clinical colleagues across Turning Point, and provide into the network of Clinical Leads for the purpose of governance and peer support / CPD.

You should have extensive experience of working in the substance use field and play a key role in the on-going delivery of high -quality clinical interventions. You will work closely with the Smithfield management team, clinical team (including nurses and non-medical prescribers), local healthcare professionals and key stakeholders to provide holistic care packages for service users before, during and after admission to Smithfield.

You will have a real opportunity to help shape service delivery, implement clinical innovation and contribute to delivering clinically excellent services.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Turning Point is committed to the on-going professional development of all our staff and we offer regular structured supervision, a well-developed monthly CPD program and full support with appraisals and revalidation. Through joining Turning Point, you will receive a warm welcome, extensive training, and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational service and organisation.
• Turning Point have a number of integrated Substance Use services and the Clinical Leads meet regularly providing invaluable peer support for one another.
• The successful candidate will have:
• Appropriate experience in addiction medicine at a clinical leadership level:
• Be a Specialist doctor in addiction: either a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist or a specialist doctor from another background such as General Practice, who has the appropriate experience & qualifications (as per the RCPsych / RCGP Competency Framework)
• Please contact Dr Martyn Hull, Turning Points Clinical Director if you have any queries about this at martyn.hull@turning-point.co.uk
• Current GMC Registration
• Experience of providing safe, effective and evidence-based assessment, care and interventions for substance users
• The legal right to work in the UK
• In addition to the above we are seeking to appoint an individual who can also bring Turning Points core values to the role
• We believe that everyone has the potential to grow, learn and make choices
• We all communicate in an authentic and confident way that blends support and challenge
• We are here to embrace change even when it is complex and uncomfortable
• We treat each other and those we support as individuals however difficult and challenging
• We deliver better outcomes by encouraging ideas and new thinking
• We commit to building a strong and financially viable Turning Point together

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Turning Point

Address

Turning Point

Thompson Street

Manchester

M4 5FY

Employer's website

https://www.turning-point.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)