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Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry (Ealing RISE) | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 19 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £52,530 - £82,400 London Zone Allowance
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 18 August 2024
Location: West Ealing, W13 9BP
Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6497430/333-D-AD-SR-04

Summary

Ealing Recovery Intervention Services Ealing
Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry 6 Sessions per week

Do you want to work in an enthusiastic team with a vibrant and experienced MDT delivering addiction treatment?

CNWL is looking for a passionate and committed Speciality Grade doctor to join our Ealing service. Ealing RISE (Recovery Intervention Services Ealing) is a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary service, providing treatment to Ealing residents presenting with drug and alcohol problems.

The applicant will be an enthusiastic doctor who is keen to work with this marginalized patient group and can work collaboratively within a dynamic, innovative service and with our partner agencies. There are significant opportunities for personal development.

The post holder will work in the RISE community team based in Ealing Sector of the Addictions Directorate. The service is a partnership between CNWL NHS FT Trust and organisations from the third sector. These partners include a third sector organisation Change Grow Live (CGL), and a service user led organisations Build on Belief (BoB) providing recovery support /rehabilitating patients in the community. The Lead Contractor is CGL with CNWL subcontracted to provide clinical services.

The post holder is an integral part of a large team that includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, senior psychiatry trainee, another Speciality Doctor, NMPs, nurses, psychologists, recovery practitioners ( care coordinators) and outreach workers.







The post comprises a 06-session (PA) working week. Clinical duties will be delegated and supervised by the Consultant Psychiatrist who works part time. Appropriate time is allocated to Supporting Professional Activities, which includes Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities such as quality improvement, research and training. The post is primarily based at the main hub of the service in West Ealing currently and the post holder will also be working some sessions in the service hub in Southall. The post is designed to be flexible and the post holder will be expected to respond to strategic developments and the needs of

CNWL’s Addiction Directorate is a large, well-established, multidisciplinary NHS provider offering a wide range of high-quality addictions services to the diverse and multicultural population of London and Milton Keyes. In addition to borough-based addiction treatment services, we also provide a club drug clinic, as well as gambling and gaming addiction services.

We provide services to the residents of 4 London boroughs: Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon and Hounslow, as well as Milton Keynes. Our addictions treatment services offer recovery-focussed interventions within vibrant community-based multi-disciplinary teams and in partnership with non-statutory providers. In addition, we provide a National Problem Gambling & Gaming Clinic and a Club Drug Clinic. We provide an addiction treatment service at HMP Woodhill. We host a Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College, Prof. Anne Lingford-Hughes.

Our services are committed to delivering high quality, evidence-based treatments. We have close links with Imperial College, London and are committed to research, service evaluation, quality improvement and developing innovative approaches. Our services are recovery focused and have developed expertise in delivering integrated services with third sector providers and embrace partnership working.

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and participate in patient assessment and the delivery and evaluation of treatment. Responsibilities include assessment of new patients, review of existing patients and planning treatment with keyworkers

To be responsible for day-to-day medical assessment and decision-making.

To liaise closely with patients’ keyworkers, who will be primarily responsible for coordinating their care

To provide clinical advice to team members on a 1:1 basis and within MDT meetings

To manage patients undergoing detoxification (either community or inpatient) for drug and/or alcohol dependence

To initiate, stabilise and maintain patients on opiate substitute treatment (OST)

To undertake mental health reviews on patients

To provide health care appropriate to the patient’s physical health needs by examination and make appropriate referrals to medical colleagues/GPs

To provide support to designated and prospective Non-Medical Prescribers and work with the Addictions Lead Nurse to develop these roles and relevant governance arrangements

To participate in providing training to staff as well as students (medical, nursing and social work) attending the service
For further details regarding the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.






This advert closes on Sunday 11 Aug 2024

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