Senior Medical Officer, Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services

NHS Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is offering an exciting opportunity for a Senior Medical Officer role, combining clinical responsibilities with management duties in drug and alcohol recovery services. This position is ideal for a dynamic and experienced substance misuse specialist aiming to make a significant impact in a leading health service.

Qualifications

• Significant clinical addictions experience.
• Experience contributing to management and service development.
• Ability to manage complex patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to community-based medical workforce.
• Manage caseload of complex patients.
• Contribute to service developments and partnership working.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time Management

Clinical Decision Making

Education

Full GMC registration with licence to practice

Experience in substance misuse (GP or psychiatrist with CCT and addiction endorsement)

Job description

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services provide community treatment and care to reduce harm and promote recovery. As well as being one of the largest and most dynamic drug and alcohol service providers in Europe, we are also at the forefront of service developments in many areas including delivering diamorphine assisted treatment, expanding access to long acting depo treatments and pioneering safer drug consumption and drug checking in Scotland.

The existing Senior Medical Officer (SMO) post offers a rare opportunity to split your time between management and clinical responsibilities, providing dynamic clinical leadership to the community based medical and prescribing workforce and supporting managers, enabling the delivery of safe and effective alcohol and drug recovery services. In addition, the SMO will directly manage a caseload of complex patients, with the support of a multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will be a strong leader who has significant clinical addictions experience and is able to make sound clinical decisions in complex scenarios. They will have experience of contributing to management, care governance and service development and demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills.

The SMO will also be expected to contribute centrally to service developments, partnership working groups, teaching and training and other managerial undertakings as directed by the Lead Clinician or Associate Medical Director.

Candidates should hold full GMC registration with licence to practice and either be GPs with considerable experience in substance misuse or psychiatrists who have completed their CCT with addiction endorsement. We look forward to recruiting a dynamic and enthusiastic substance misuse specialist who wishes to contribute to the further development of our integrated services.

Informal contact: Dr Trina Ritchie, Lead Clinician/SMO, 0141 303 8948, [e-mail]

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.

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