Consultant Psychiatrist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and compassionate Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Edward Myers Substance Misuse Inpatient Unit at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.The Edward Myers Unit is a specialist inpatient service providing assessment, stabilisation, and treatment for adults with complex substance misuse needs, including co-occurring mental health conditions. The post holder will play a key leadership role within a well-established, multidisciplinary team committed to delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care.This is an excellent opportunity for a consultant who is passionate about addiction psychiatry and wishes to contribute to service development, clinical excellence, and integrated care pathways across inpatient and community setting.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilitieso Provide senior medical leadership to the inpatient substance misuse service.o Undertake comprehensive psychiatric assessments and develop evidence-based treatment plans.o Lead ward rounds and multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.o Manage complex dual diagnosis cases in collaboration with community mental health and addiction services.o Provide clinical supervision to junior medical staff and contribute to their training and appraisal.o Participate in service development, quality improvement initiatives, and clinical governance activities.o Contribute to on-call consultant rota (details available upon request).About the ServiceThe Edward Myers Unit delivers specialist inpatient detoxification and stabilisation for individuals with alcohol and drug dependency, often presenting with significant psychiatric and physical health comorbidities. The service works closely with community substance misuse teams, acute hospitals, and mental health services to ensure safe transitions of care and continuity of treatment.We pride ourselves on delivering compassionate, trauma-informed, and person-centred care within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

Harplands Hospital

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6TH

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

Harplands Hospital

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6TH

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

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