Specialist Doctor in Addiction Psychiatry Coatbridge
Job description
Specialist Doctor in Addiction Psychiatry Salary Range £83,130 - £94,350 per annum We welcome applications from enthusiastic individuals keen to join our dedicated Addiction Psychiatry team in NHS Lanarkshire. This post is intended to provide the specialist clinical and professional skills of a Specialist Doctor in the area of Addiction Psychiatry. This post serves a progressive, forward-looking, and recovery-based addiction service across the Airdrie and Motherwell localities of Lanarkshire. The post-holder would be primarily based at the Airbles Road Centre, Motherwell, with room and clinic space also available in Airdrie. The post-holder would be expected to work closely with multi-disciplinary community addiction team staff based in the Airdrie and Motherwell localities (including nursing, social care, occupational therapy, psychology and medical officer staff), as well as the Substance Misuse Nursing Liaison teams at University Hospitals Monklands and Wishaw. There would also be regular joint working with mental health services, local social work services, and the acute sector (for example, medical services and Accident and Emergency), as well as the third sector and local peer support services. Addiction Psychiatry in-patient care is provided at the University Hospital Wishaw psychiatric unit, under the care of the wider Addiction Psychiatry service. The job plan provides time for non-clinic based activities such as CPD, research, and clinical audit. The job is offered as a full-time post on a 10 PA basis (including up to 2 non-DCC) but applications will be considered from those wishing to work less than full-time. If full-time, up to 2 EPA's may be available to undertake additional clinical activity. NHS Lanarkshire are happy to consider requests for this publication to be in another accessible format i.e. large print, braille, etc. Please contact us via either of the undernoted methods clearly stating which format is required. Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by: Dr Laura Steven, Consultant Psychiatrist / Clinical Director Addictions (01698 456 215) Dr Adam Brodie, Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist (01698 753 820). For any application queries, please contact Lynn Cliens, HR Assistant 01698 754351 or via Interviews are scheduled for: Date TBC Please follow the link below should you wish any further information on NHS Lanarkshire 'In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another. *Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children's setting/secure unit.' NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency's new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at . NHS Scotland
