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Job overview

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).

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.