Our team in Stoke in Trent are recruiting for an experienced Clinical Lead, to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group.

If you are an enthusiastic and creative registered nurse or pharmacist, passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

CDAS (Stoke on Trent Community Drug and Alcohol Service) is a new, all age service supporting individuals, their families and communities. Our busy team currently helps around 1500 people at any one time and we want to help even more by transforming our service to deliver from multiple venues and make more effective use of the resources we have.

You will lead on and be responsible for the provision of clinical care in our service, ensuring that our standards of care allow clients to achieve their recovery goals.

A dynamic leader, you will guide and support clinical staff working within the service, working hand in hand with the service manager to foster a continuous improvement mindset and ensuring that evidence based best clinical practice is delivered in line with national, organisational and local standards.

Working in co-production with operational managers, you will lead the continuous development and governance of high quality, effective and safe services within the budget and the contract. You will also lead on building service accessibility and trauma informed care by delivery of culturally sensitive, safe clinical services that people trust and want to use.

It will be vital for you to develop strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders and commissioners for the continuity of service, as well as leading on delivering opioid substitution and detoxification treatment, alcohol detoxification and relapse prevention treatment and other clinical interventions.

This is a full time and permanent post. Working hours will cover Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm, late shifts from 12.00pm to 8.00pm and some Saturdays.

You will be a compassionate and motivated registered nurse or pharmacist who holds a prescribing qualification, with the ability to connect quickly with the people we support, treating them respectfully and with dignity.

We’re looking for substantial experience working within the substance misuse arena, as well as experience working in a supervisory role within a multidisciplinary team.

You will be highly organised, with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively.

Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and staff. 

Please note that you must have current NMC or GPhC registration to be considered for this position.