Clinical Lead Nurse Consultant | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64,455 - £74,896 PA, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Stockport, SK1 3QD |
| Cwmni: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7870230/311-S703-26-A |
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Stockport’s Drug and Alcohol Service are recruiting an experienced prescribing Nurse Consultant/Clinical Lead to shape the future of our specialist substance misuse services and act as subject matter expert to offer clinical support, training and advice both within the Trust and to external partners including the Acute trust and Primary Care. This is a senior leadership position for an expert practitioner who can combine advanced clinical expertise with strategic service development and strong multidisciplinary leadership.
This role combines advanced clinical practice with service development, staff leadership, and partnership working across health, social care, voluntary sectors, and co-ordination of the service medical and prescribing offer.
This role is central to ensuring safe, effective, evidence‑based care for people experiencing drug and alcohol dependence, overseeing clinical governance, including quality assurance, incident review, risk management, and safeguarding processes and to driving continuous improvement across all pathways.
This is a rare opportunity to take a strategic leadership role in a service committed to service development, partnership, and improving outcomes for people affected by drug and alcohol dependence. You will have the autonomy to shape clinical practice, strengthen pathways, and lead an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will operate as the day to day Clinical Lead for the services. This includes the day to day prescribing for addictions and clinical management of a service client group of up to 1000 people at any one time.
The post holder will sit as a member the Drug and Alcohol Directorate’s Senior Management Team in the Drug and Alcohol Service (the provider of all specialised adult prescribing for drug addiction (OST) for the borough, and oversees or delivers all of the specialist prescribing for alcohol, working alongside the borough’s GPs.)
They will be responsible for whole episodes of care including the assessment, formulation of treatment, initiation or review and delivery of the required specialist interventions, (including prescribing, of controlled drugs for addiction and other specialist packages of care relevant to the delivery of specialist substance misuse services). These will be delivered by the Clinical Team and the wider staff team with Clinical leadership and decision making provided by the post-holder.
The post holder will carry a small caseload of the most complex clients.
The post holder will act as specialist expert resource for the provision of highly specialised accurate, contemporary and evidenced based drug and alcohol information and advice across a range of borough and wider settings.
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
To hold lead responsibility (alongside the Trust Lead for Addictions, Head of Service and Service Doctor) for the delivery of safe, effective, evidence based clinical interventions for the service users.
• To act autonomously to undertake highly specialised assessments of the
clinical needs of people with substance misuse issues, and instigate recovery focussed, clinical /nurse led interventions (including highly specialised prescribing for addictions),
• To be responsible for assessing, autonomously instigating and reviewing, thedelivery of highly specialised packages of care for the most complex Service Users. To be responsible for the ongoing management of the same including in conjunction with other specialist services across the borough and at a regional level where necessary.
• To provide highly specialist advice and direction regarding drug and alcohol addiction, treatment and prescribing to staff across the borough both from within the Trust and other partner agencies and also to volunteers, carers.
• To receive, assess, assimilate and provide complex and sensitive information to service users/families/carers and to communicate this via various formats.
This information could be upsetting and unwelcome to the recipient regarding treatment decisions.
• Have the ability to use appropriate clinical equipment relating to service user health screening. This includes highly specialised care and interventions for physical health issues such as ECGs , Interventions and treatments for blood borne viruses ( Hepatitis C) and as part of national programs such as Flu vaccinations.
• Contribute towards the development and sustainability of multidisciplinary and multi agency working
• To be responsible for the receiving, assimilation, interpretation and
implementation of national and local clinical policies and procedures and for the development of services and interventions in line with these expectations.
• To hold responsibility (alongside the Head of Service) for the management of relevant aspects of the service financial budget and resources, including the management of the borough’s prescribing budget alongside the
commissioners.
• To provide specialist clinical and supervisory support for MOSAIC, young person’s substance misuse service including the in-reach nursing provision delivered by Pennine Care and advice and guidance for the prescribing GP.
This is provided under a bespoke contractual arrangement with Pennine Care.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Apr 2026