Job summary
The Medical Lead is an important role within the service, providing
leadership, coordination and delivery of the prescribing and clinical elements
within this integrated substance use service.
You will be a registered doctor (Speciality or Consultant Psychiatrist)
and will have experience in providing support to ensure that we are
consistently offering a high quality, clinically excellent, recovery-focused
service to people with problematic substance use.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting Medical Lead role for a suitably experienced
prescriber to help us to provide specialist, tailored
support, for some of the most vulnerable people within our community.
This role will allow you to play a key role in developing the specialist
substance use clinical treatment offer in Kingston, and become an integral part
of the local leadership team.
You will provide medical and clinical leadership to the Via Kingston
service staff, and clinical supervision to healthcare staff within the service.
You will also provide clinical leadership and support to GPs and Pharmacies
involved in the provision of treatment services to people who use substances within
Kingston.
You will be an active part of the local management and leadership team
and contribute to the overall performance of the service to ensure that
contractual output targets are achieved. This role is also supported by Vias central
clinical department, for example to receive clinical supervision.
About us
Via Kingston is a fully integrated adult substance use service,
providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub located
within Surbiton Health Centre.
This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well
performing and highly functioning. It is CQC registered to provide a range of
clinical interventions including blood borne virus and other holistic health
interventions, opioid substitute treatment, and community detoxification,
alongside a comprehensive psychosocial, harm reduction and recovery focused
model.
The team actively supports individuals that are directly and indirectly
affected by substance use, working with the local community to improve the
health, wellbeing and functioning of Kingston residents, irrespective of
circumstance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose
Provide high quality service delivery to
people who use substances and their significant others.
Contribute to the overall performance of
designated service(s) to ensure that contractual output targets and high clinical
standards are achieved.
Provide safe, effective and evidence based
clinical (including prescribed) interventions and holistic care within the
designated service(s)/partnership agencies as required by service
configuration.
Provide effective medical leadership to the
service and liaise internally with senior and executive team as well as
external stake holders.
Key duties and activities of the role
Work as a medical lead in treatment of
substance use disorders (prescriber), in designated service.
Deliver health and wellbeing interventions for
designated service(s).
Assist in the development of systems, pathways
and documents that promote holistic delivery of services to people with complex
needs (e.g., psychiatry, criminal justice, blood borne viruses).
Ensure appropriate clinical management of
people who use the designated service(s), including those with complex
needs.
Promote and support organisational interface,
for example, with commissioners, suppliers, primary and secondary care services
(including public health, wholesalers, community pharmacy/GPs and hospitals
respectively).
Contribute to
(medicines/drug/devices/infection control etc) alert responses in collaboration
with the Clinical Department.
Be involved in and where appropriate take
responsibility for relevant audits ongoing monitoring and implementation of
associated recommendations/action plans.
Contribute to the collation and use of
clinical data and be involved in subsequent improvements required, relating to
quality/performance indicators.
Provide competency assessment and training of
staff/students/volunteers, identify and support development needs of others and
support colleagues to develop in their roles to deliver excellent
services.
Undertake continuing professional development
to maintain confidence and competence, to meet organisational and professional
regulator revalidation requirements.
Work in line with all relevant legislation,
best practice guidance, professional and CQC standards and organisational
documents.
Provide advice and guidance on clinical
(including prescribing) issues to staff working in the designated service(s),
as well as other colleagues and partner agencies.
Work alongside management and their direct
reports to support a one team approach.
Where relevant, provide clinical/line
management supervision for other staff and support facilitation of relevant
meetings/training events.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Doctor registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a licence to practice and able to prescribe independently.
- Relevant post graduate qualifications/completion of relevant recognised qualifications e.g, ideally MRCPsych and CCT/CESR or RCGP Drugs part 1 and 2 certificates, if no membership (desirable).
Experience
Essential
- Passion for working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
- Sound and demonstrable knowledge of clinical/prescribing issues relating to problematic substance use, include appropriate recovery, harm reduction and health promotion interventions.
- Solution focused with an inclusive and innovative approach to service development.
- Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems such as Nebula.
- A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements including the CQC, NICE and any other relevant bodies.
- A demonstratable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as criminal justice agencies, primary care, secondary care, commissioners, community groups and other stakeholders to achieve good outcomes for people who use our services.
- The ability to work calmly under pressure, ensuring that deadlines are met, and ensure all information is recorded in a timely manner.
- The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in different settings and to different groups of people.
- Great team working, communication, interpersonal skills and cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver organisational objectives, as well as in working directly with people who use our services and their significant others.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Via
Address
18 Dartmouth Street
London
SW1H 9BL