# Speciality Doctor in Addictions Psychiatry > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/speciality-doctor-in-addictions-psychiatry/dd419e2f-232b-40ce-90dd-917fbf16dd9e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/speciality-doctor-in-addictions-psychiatry/dd419e2f-232b-40ce-90dd-917fbf16dd9e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** HMP Bronzefield - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £63,696 - £102,689 plus London weighting of £2162 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (fixed-term contract) - **Employment type:** Part time - 6 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T09:13:29.560Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Uxbridge/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Addictions_Psychiatry/Addictions_Psychiatry-v8267234 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8267234?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you want to work in an enthusiastic team with a vibrant and experienced MDT delivering addiction treatment? CNWL is looking for a passionate and committed Speciality Grade doctor to join our Ealing service. Ealing RISE (Recovery Intervention Services Ealing) is a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary service, providing treatment to Ealing residents presenting with drug and alcohol problems. The applicant will be an enthusiastic doctor who is keen to work with this marginalized patient group and can work collaboratively within a dynamic, innovative service and with our partner agencies. There are significant opportunities for personal development. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will work in the RISE community team based in Ealing Sector of the Addictions Directorate. The service is a partnership between CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and organisations from the third sector. These partners include a third sector organisation Change Grow Live (CGL), and a service user led organisations Build on Belief (BoB) providing recovery support /rehabilitating patients in the community. The Lead Contractor is CGL with CNWL subcontracted to provide clinical services. The post holder will be an integral part of a large team that includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Senior Psychiatry Trainee, another Speciality Doctor, NMPs, Nurses, Psychologists, Recovery Practitioners ( care coordinators) and Outreach Workers. Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details regarding the role and responsibilities. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To liaise closely with patients’ keyworkers, who will be primarily responsible for co-ordinating their care. The post holder may be required to hold a small caseload, although the post holder will primarily review existing patients collaboratively with their allocated keyworker. Follow-up reviews may be facilitated should the patient’s presentation change or require a care plan review. To provide clinical advice to team members on a 1:1 basis and within MDT meetings. To manage patients undergoing detoxification (either community or inpatient) for drug and/or alcohol dependence. To initiate, stabilise and maintain patients on opiate substitute treatment (OST). To undertake mental health reviews on patients. To provide health care appropriate to the patient’s physical health needs by examination and make appropriate referrals to medical colleagues/GPs. To provide support to designated and prospective Non-Medical Prescribers and work with the Addictions Lead Nurse to develop these roles and relevant governance arrangements. To participate in providing training to staff as well as students (medical, nursing and social work) attending the service. To liaise closely and communicate effectively with colleagues in statutory and non-statutory services concerning the treatment and management of our patients. This includes colleagues in settings such as primary care, the Acute Trust, mental health services, Adult Social Care and the Probation Service. To ensure that patients are assigned ICD-11 diagnostic coding and that these are properly recorded on the electronic patient record. To contribute to the completion of serious incident reports as required. To contribute to the completion of coroner’s reports as required. To support the service in achieving key performance indicators in accordance with Public Health England’s National Drug Treatment Monitoring Service (NDTMS). To maintain comprehensive contemporaneous documentation on the Service’s electronic patient record (CRIIS). ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - - Commitment to multidisciplinary working - - Commitment to working with this patient group and to consulting and involving service users in all aspects of their treatment - - Commitment to research, quality improvement and continuing professional development (CPD) - - Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust - - Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Dept to perform the duties of the post - - Commitment to service development for vulnerable populations - - Ability to be flexible and work as part of a changing, dynamic organisation ### Skills & Knowledge **Essential** - - Able to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach that considers the needs of the whole person - - Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills - - Able to complete medical and mental health assessments - - Able to plan treatment - - IT literacy **Desirable** - - Competence in assessing and managing substance use disorders ### Previous experience **Essential** - - Completed at least 1-year regular hospital or community based service at Foundation Year, core trainee (CT) grade or as a specialty doctor (or equivalent) - - Psychiatry training / experience of at least two years **Desirable** - - Experience of working within a mental health inpatient or community setting - - Experience of working in addiction treatment settings - - Experience of prescribing opiate substitute treatments - - Experience of quality improvement ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - - Full GMC registration and current licence to practice **Desirable** - - Has obtained MRCPsych (or equivalent) qualification ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10581870) - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.