Consultant Psychiatrist - STARS

NHS; Stafford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Stafford is seeking a part-time Registered Consultant Psychiatrist to provide clinical leadership for drug and alcohol treatment services. The role focuses on complex care coordination, specialist prescribing, and supporting a multi-disciplinary team. Applicants must hold a relevant medical degree and have substantial experience in the substance misuse field, alongside management qualifications.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in substance misuse.
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work.
• Previous management or leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement and coordinate care packages for individuals.
• Provide clinical supervision and specialist prescribing.
• Attend prescribing forums and contribute to research.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Clinical supervision

Specialist prescribing

Education

Medical Degree (MRCGP/MBBS)

Management Qualification

Job description

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Staffordshire Treatment and Recovery System (STaRS) Team as a Registered Consultant Psychiatrist. STaRS is part of our Inclusion Services based in Stafford.

You will provide clinical leadership to the Staffordshire Service in supporting a holistic approach to drug and alcohol treatment, contribute to the development of policies and procedures and programme of continuous improvement, research and evaluation within the service and take the lead on developing and managing a trainee rotational program.

You will undertake specialist prescribing and medical assessment/ treatment for service users attending a community drug and alcohol treatment service, including titration, stabilisation, detoxification and review.

The role is part-time. 4 sessions, 16 hours per week. Flexibility will be considered.

Main duties of the job

As Consultant Psychiatrist you will be responsible for implementing and coordinating complex packages of care appropriate to the individuals need and work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to address service users' wider care needs

As part of this role, you will:

• Provide clinical supervision to the other medics, clinic lead and other prescribers as required
• Provide specialist prescribing to individuals who present at the community drug and alcohol treatment service.
• Provide medical advice and guidance on complex cases to staff within Inclusion and attend prescribing forums.
• Take an active role in Inclusion research and innovation opportunitie
• Ensure the service is compliant with CQC standards

About us

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Inclusion service offers psychological and drug & alcohol services, in the community, and in prisons, and has contracts across the country.

As an organisation we serve a population of 1.5 million and currently employ around 9000 members of staff.

We have a wide range of exciting opportunities for people looking to work in a truly integrated NHS organisation. By joining MPFT you will become part of a team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:

• Putting people at the heart of what we do
• Empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
• Delivering better health, better care in partnership

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

For further information regarding this role, please see attached the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Have good experience of working within the substance misuse field
• Demonstrate an understanding for the need for multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Previous management/ leadership experience

Qualifications

• Medical Degree (MRCGP/MBBS)
• Fully registered with the GMC and on Medical Performers' List/Registered with a licence to practise
• On specialist register (have the addiction endorsement)
• Management Qualification
• RCGP working in substance misuse part I and II (or agreeing to work towards promptly achieving these qualifications)

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.

Staffordshire Drug & Alcohol Partnership Lead