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Clinical Lead Doctor Addictions – Horizons (Bristol)
Client: Turning Point
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 1
Posted: 30.03.2025
Expiry Date: 14.05.2025
Job Description:
Job Introduction
Locations: Central Hub Brunswick Square, North Greenway Community Centre, South Symes Community Centre. Clinical staff will be assigned to one of the hubs but expected to work across all our Bristol premises as required.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our new Bristol service, Horizons. This is a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services across Bristol. Turning Point has partnered with Bristol Drugs Project to ensure continued local expertise whilst championing a fresh approach, alongside seven other local and national providers.
As the Clinical Lead Doctor, you’ll have the chance to make a real difference to the lives of the people we support who are experiencing difficulties from drug and alcohol use.
Turning Point offers the chance to work with many addiction specialists across the country, lending both learning and support to this role.
Role Responsibility
The Clinical Lead will lead the service by:
* Leading on all aspects of clinical governance and quality assurance, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness and patient safety
* Taking a lead on service development
* Acting as advisor on development and implementation of policy
* Championing and leading research and innovation to develop new clinical guidance and service protocols
* Working with Turning Point colleagues nationally to optimise patient care
* Providing clinical supervision, training to clinical colleagues
* Embrace teaching of students from all aspects of the MDT
They will treat the most complex patients in the service, and will:
* Provide expert advice to other clinicians on diagnosis, assessment and care planning
* Accept referrals of people with the most severe or complex needs
* Provide expert oversight of provision of psychosocial support
* Lead introduction of innovative interventions to improve outcomes and quality of provision
* Undertake complex prescribing, if necessary
* Provide liaison drug and alcohol services in acute medical and psychiatric settings
* Work collaboratively with all stakeholders.
The Ideal Candidate
We are currently recruiting for an Addiction Psychiatrist, GP Specialist or a suitably experienced Speciality Doctor to work as a Clinical Lead in our Horizons service in Bristol.
The successful candidate will need to be accredited as ‘specialist’ in substance use treatment, and should either:
1. Be listed on the GMC’s Specialist Register as a psychiatrist with an endorsement in addiction;
2. Have training, experience and supervision equivalent to this, as certified by the GMC through an appropriate Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR);
3. Be listed on the GMC’s GP Register and have appropriate training, qualifications and experience;
4. Fulfil criteria of a speciality doctor in Addictions with suitable experience.
Turning Point is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff, and we offer regular structured supervision, a well-developed monthly CPD program and full support with appraisals and revalidations.
About us
As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.
What Benefits Will I Receive?
* 26 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 28 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
* Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
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