Overview
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. 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 and will sit as a member of the Drug and Alcohol Directorate's Senior Management Team in the Drug and Alcohol Service. They oversee or deliver all of the specialist prescribing for alcohol, working alongside the borough's GPs. The role includes day-to-day prescribing for addictions and clinical management of a service client group of up to 1000 people at any one time and responsibility for whole episodes of care including assessment, formulation of treatment, initiation or review and delivery of required specialist interventions (including prescribing, of controlled drugs for addiction and other specialist packages of care). The post holder will carry a small caseload of the most complex clients and act as a 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. They will hold lead responsibility for the delivery of safe, effective, evidence based clinical interventions for the service users alongside the Trust Lead for Addictions, Head of Service and Service Doctor.
Responsibilities
* 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 the delivery of highly specialised packages of care for the most complex service users, including ongoing management 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 to volunteers and carers.
* To receive, assess, assimilate and provide complex and sensitive information to service users/families/carers and to communicate this via various formats.
* Have the ability to use appropriate clinical equipment relating to service user health screening, including highly specialised care and interventions for physical health issues (e.g. ECGs) and programs such as Flu vaccinations.
* Contribute towards the development and sustainability of multidisciplinary and multi agency working.
* To be responsible for the 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 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 and advice/guidance for prescribing GP. (This is provided under a bespoke contractual arrangement with Pennine Care.)
Qualifications and Experience
* Experience as a prescribing Nurse Consultant/Clinical Lead or equivalent senior clinical leadership role in substance misuse services.
* Advanced clinical practice with service development, staff leadership, and partnership working across health, social care, voluntary sectors.
* Experience in clinical governance, quality assurance, incident review, risk management, safeguarding processes and continuous improvement across pathways.
* Ability to act as a specialist expert resource for drug and alcohol information and advice across a range of settings.
Additional Information
* Lead responsibility for safe, effective, evidence based clinical interventions for service users alongside the Head of Service and Service Doctor.
* Other information related to employer branding and operations from the original description (e.g., diversity statement, sponsorship, and application process) is preserved in spirit but refined for clarity where applicable.
Benefits and Equality
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and people with lived experience of mental illness. Details on sponsorship eligibility, pre-employment checks, and other standard NHS recruitment processes are included where relevant.
* Generous annual leave, flexible working opportunities, continued professional development, health and wellbeing support, and staff discounts are among benefits referenced in the original description.
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