Clinical Services Manager in Reading

Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Slough doing a highly rewarding job? Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are currently recruiting for a Clinical Services Manager. Passionate about people, you’ll enjoy the opportunity and support to enhance your own life and career too, as you gain the experience and training you need to progress in your career within a social enterprise.

Main Responsibilities

• Your vital role will involve a wide range of clinical duties, overseeing the prescribing and wellbeing clinics, completing audits and supporting safeguarding.
• You will also take the lead for aspects of the clinical governance of the service and some key performance indicators.
• You will lead your team to deliver the same high standards that you do, by providing clinical supervision to nurses, completing appraisals, delivering training and ensuring that all they do is in line with the clinical code of conduct.
• A portion of your role will be providing a level of clinical interventions reflecting your high level of clinical skills and expertise.
• As a member of the service senior leadership team, you will have a real opportunity to help shape service delivery and contribute to delivering clinically excellent services.

The Ideal Candidate

• The role requires a high level of experience within the problematic substance use field and you must hold an NMP / prescribing qualification.
• An inspiring role model, we expect you to already have experience in a drug and alcohol setting.
• Building relationships with colleagues, commissioners and service users alike will be a big part of what you do.
• We’re looking for a Clinical Services Manager who can confidently engage and influence people.
• A working knowledge of safeguarding, substance misuse issues and legislation is key – as is the ability to recognise indicators of substance misuse and the issues that service users might face.

In addition to the above we are seeking to appoint an individual who can also bring Turning Point’s core values to the role:

• We believe that everyone has the potential to grow, learn and make choices.
• We all communicate in an authentic and confident way that blends support and challenge.
• We are here to embrace change even when it is complex and uncomfortable.
• We treat each other and those we support as individuals however difficult and challenging.
• We deliver better outcomes by encouraging ideas and new thinking.
• We commit to building a strong and financially viable Turning Point together.

About Us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether it's ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package. 26 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 28 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.