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West Dunbartonshire Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services provide community treatment and care to reduce harm and promote recovery. This new 32 hour per week Senior Medical Officer (SMO) post in west Dunbartonshire, 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 license 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.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.