Consultant Psychiatrist in Addiction

This job is located primarily in the North ABSDAS Team base at Hiraeth in Maindiff Court Hospital, Abergavenny. Some clinics are held on site and there is a specified clinical room for this purpose. Other clinics are held at community bases across Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Torfaen. There is no dispensary on site and most medication is dispensed via community pharmacies. Buvidal is stored and administered both at the team base and at other clinics.
ABSDAS is a Gwent-wide complex needs addiction service and has teams covering Newport, Caerphilly and the North of the county. Clinics are provided in a variety of settings (secondary care settings, third sector buildings, GP surgeries) as well as some in-reach into local hospitals. The team is made up of a variety of professionals including consultants in addiction psychiatry, occasional CT3 and/or ST5 trainees in psychiatry, mental health nurses, general nurses, a senior therapist, psychologists, occupational therapist, support workers and peer mentors.
Please see Job Description for further details.

This is a replacement post due to the current postholder moving to the role of clinical director. This is an exciting time to join the service as it has recently undergone a period of expansion due to new funding opportunities, with roles being added to the service across a range of professional disciplines, increasing the breadth of interventions that can be provided to our complex needs patient group. ABSDAS clinicians contribute widely to training and development in addictions across the health board and wider, with links into the University of South Wales and Cardiff University. In addition, the service has been at the forefront of a number of recent innovations in addiction treatment provision (such as development of Buvidal treatment services and pathways for patients with Alcohol Related Brain Damage)., Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy which opened in October 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed, This position involves Regulated Activity with adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
+ Enhanced check with barred list information, including an adult barred check list
Applicates must hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC
Candidates for Consultant posts must also be on the GMC Specialist Register (including via CESR/European Community Rights) or will have a CCT/CESR(CP) date within 6 months of interview.