Medical Lead Substance Use Services

Turning Point; Liversedge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Ongoing CPD opportunities

Job summary

Turning Point is seeking a Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership across our Integrated Substance Use Service in Wakefield. This role blends strategic leadership with tangible clinical impact in a forward-thinking service committed to innovation and excellence.

You will work with an experienced leadership team to develop services, improve outcomes, support staff and respond to emerging challenges in substance use treatment, including ketamine use and synthetic opioids.

Qualifications

• Experience in addiction medicine at a clinical leadership level.
• Current GMC Registration is required.
• Experience in providing safe, effective, evidence-based assessment and interventions for substance users (adults and young people).

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership across the Wakefield service.
• Support delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based interventions.
• Lead on clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and development support to clinical colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with local health partners and stakeholders.
• Support service innovation and development.
• Contribute to strategic planning and service improvement initiatives.
• Influence how services respond to emerging trends within addiction treatment.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Strategic leadership

Education

Specialist doctor in addiction

Tools

GMC Registration

Job description

Job Introduction

We are committed to attracting the right candidate and will consider job share arrangements, and salary negotiation based on experience and qualifications.

Are you an experienced Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist or Specialist GP in Addiction looking for the opportunity to shape and influence clinical practice within an ambitious, forward-thinking substance use service?

Turning Point is seeking a Clinical Lead to provide clinical leadership across our Integrated Substance Use Service in Wakefield. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with direct clinical impact while helping to shape the future of substance use treatment in a service committed to innovation and excellence.

Working alongside an experienced leadership team, you will play a key role in developing clinical services, improving outcomes, supporting staff and responding to emerging challenges within substance use treatment, including increasing ketamine use and the emergence of synthetic opioids.

Whether you are a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Addiction Specialist or experienced GP with the appropriate addiction qualifications and experience, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference while enjoying flexibility and professional autonomy within a supportive organisation.

Role Responsibility What You'll Be Responsible For

As Clinical Lead, you will:

• Provide clinical leadership and oversight across the Wakefield service.
• Support the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based interventions.
• Lead on clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and development support to clinical colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with local health partners and stakeholders.
• Support service innovation and development.
• Contribute to strategic planning and service improvement initiatives.
• Influence how services respond to emerging trends within addiction treatment.

This is an opportunity to help shape the future direction of a well-established service while maintaining meaningful clinical involvement.

At Turning Point, you’ll join a national network of experienced Clinical Leads who work collaboratively and support one another through regular peer forums and leadership development opportunities.

You’ll benefit from:

• Excellent clinical autonomy.
• Strong peer support.
• Established leadership structures.
• Ongoing CPD opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• An organisation genuinely committed to innovation and service improvement.
• The opportunity to influence care delivery for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.

The Ideal Candidate

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 has several integrated Substance Use services and the Clinical Leads meet regularly providing invaluable peer support for one another, supported via the Clinical Director

• 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)
  • have current GMC Registration
  • have experience of providing safe, effective and evidence-based assessment, care and interventions for substance users (ideally across both adults and young people)

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.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package.

You will get 34 days paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 36 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.