Associate Specialist In Psychiatry

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives.   

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.    

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Specialist in Psychiatry with significant experience in substance misuse to join Change Grow Live in our Tower Hamlets service. Supported by an experienced and competent team of nurse prescribers and front line workers as well as the Regional Lead Consultant, you will contribute to the service to ensure that service users consistently receive high quality services that adhere to the best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards. 

Where: Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £110,656.00 - £121,492.80 plus Inner London Weighting (£4,072.06) Pro Rata, Dependent on experience.

Fixed-Term Contract until March 2025, with potential for extension.

Responsibilities

About the role: 

• Provide a clinical assessment, including relevant psychiatric and physical investigation, of a wide range of substance misusers presenting to the service, planning and delivering appropriate individually tailored treatment plans 
• To keep accurate appropriate and up-to-date medical and administrative documentation including computer records 
• To liaise closely with other relevant professionals and organisations including non-statutory addiction services, adult psychiatric services, general practitioners, medical colleagues, Social Services and Prison Services 
• Provide specialist prescribing assessments to opiate, stimulant, barbiturates, alcohol dependent clients, and those with novel psychoactive substance use, providing medical management and reviews of prescribed clients. 
• Be an active part of the management team to ensure service and organisational goals are met and that clinical standards are kept high  
• Support nursing team to titrate patients safely on to a treatment regime and ensure that procedures are constantly reviewed to promote best evidenced based practice in accordance with CGL’s clinical guidelines 
• Develop, review and audit recovery plans, provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention 
• Provide training, advice and support to other clinical staff to ensure safe and effective service delivery 

About you: 

• Medical Degree and completion of Basic Medical Training 
• Full GMC- UK Registration with License to Practice  
• Over 3 years' experience working in Substance Misuse as specialty doctor 
• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit  MRCPsych or equivalent specialist post-graduate qualification in Psychiatry  
• Good understanding and knowledge of addiction psychiatry including management of opioid substitution treatment, opioid and alcohol detoxification and post detoxification pharmacology 
• Sound and demonstrable knowledge of clinical prescribing issues 
• Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers including appropriate medical interventions, social care and health issues 
• Ability to assess and care plan service users and formulate written reports as necessary 
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing  
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post 

What we will give to you: 

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service 
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme  
• Contributory pension scheme 
• Protected CPD time 
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. 
• A friendly and supportive team  Training, career development & progression opportunities 

Please read attached Job Description and Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification 

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you. 

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL Associate Specialist in Psychiatry (£110,656.00 - £121,492.80)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

Inner London Weighting (£4,072.06)

Closing Date

4/3/2024

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Sundeep Thandi | Sundeep.Thandi@cgl.org.uk

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.