Community Alcohol Care Team Clinical Lead/Manager

Job overview

Are you an experienced healthcare professional with leadership skills and a passion for improving outcomes for people affected by alcohol dependency and misuse? We are seeking a Community Alcohol Care Team (Co-ACT) Clinical Lead/Manager to lead a pan-Cwm Taf Morgannwg service and provide expert clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team.

You will promote evidence-based practice and support high-quality care for individuals experiencing alcohol-related harm. Working closely with acute and community services, you will help ensure seamless care pathways, reducing avoidable hospital admissions and improving outcomes.

The role includes managing and supervising practitioners, developing clinical protocols and educational resources, and working with health, social care and third-sector partners to strengthen integrated care. You will also lead quality improvement activities, monitoring performance and outcomes against best practice standards.

This role offers the chance to shape alcohol care services across the Health Board, ensuring service users and their families receive compassionate, effective support.

This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months due to funding. Anyone wishing to apply for the post as a secondment must seek approval from their Line Manager before applying.

Main duties of the job

The Community Alcohol Care Team Clinical Lead and Manager is a senior specialist nurse responsible for the clinical leadership, management, and development of the Community Alcohol Care Team across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).

If you are committed to service improvement, collaborative working and delivering excellent patient care, we would welcome your application.

The post holder will provide expert clinical care to people with complex alcohol misuse, including change-resistant drinkers and frequent hospital attenders, while also holding responsibility for day-to-day operational management, professional leadership, supervision of staff, service improvement, and partnership working across acute, community, primary care and third sector services.

The role integrates advanced autonomous clinical practice with leadership and service management, ensuring delivery of high-quality, evidence-based alcohol care aligned with national and local priorities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. Whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means being able to communicate in Welsh during routine clinical situations, such as welcoming patients, discussing straightforward aspects of their care and answering routine questions. If you’re comfortable holding everyday conversations in Welsh, we encourage you to apply. Your Welsh language skills will help us provide person-centred care and enable patients to receive services in their language of choice.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable