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Naufar is Qatar’s national substance use disorder center for treatment, prevention, professional education and research. Naufar was established in 2017 by Emiri Decree, that recognized that addiction is a health issue. Naufar treats over 1000 patients and their families each year. Our services are evidence-based and culturally- adapted to the GCC. Our facilities include over 120 beds (in-patient treatment, residential rehabilitation) and extensive out-patient treatment and recovery interventions.  

Naufar is expanding and is looking to recruit a range of clinical staff with competence in SUD. Clinical staff must be fluent in Arabic and English. 

About the job

To assess required clinical knowledge, skills and related educational needs, planning appropriate education based on the needs assessment, implementation and evaluation of said educational programs, contributing to the development of an organisation- wide learning management system.

Clinical Education

• Development of strategic clinical education plan, new hire education assessment, required education at time of on boarding, annual competency requirements and implementation of plan to meet these requirements, monthly education sessions based on new trends, needs assessments, implementation of new programs etc.
• Ensure formal education presentations as appropriate.
• Facilitate educational presentations from content experts (both Naufar and outside experts).
• Provide both formal and informal education offerings for internal and external stakeholders in substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery.
• Participate in care of the Naufar client in order to provide “real time” education and feedback to the front line caregivers
• Ensure education activities meet required standards for accreditation with the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Healthcare Professions - Accreditation Section (DHP-AS)
• Key role in the development of an integrated learning management system.

Professional/Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science, Nursing, Allied Health or any other related discipline.
• Master of Science, Nursing, Allied Health, or any other related discipline.
• Registered Healthcare practitioner (Nurse, Allied Health or other relevant healthcare discipline)

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of education delivery experience.

Suffolk County, New York, where Stony Brook University is situated, is currently facing a growing opioid epidemic. This, in addition to the other substance Use Disorders, has led to the need for a Director of Addiction Psychiatry. Stony Brook University Hospital, as well as community hospitals that are part of Stony Brook Medicine that operate NYS licensed SUD inpatient and outpatient programs, will require a coordinated effort to help address the county-wide problem.

The Director will be tasked with providing the clinical, educational and research programs for substances of abuse and coordinate efforts between hospitals and clinics. The Director will work with the Hospitals and the School of Medicine to provide comprehensive services across the spectrum. The Director will routinely collaborate with internal and external stakeholders when developing programs and moving the community toward a prevention model. The Director will be expected to recruit and retain junior and mid-level clinicians and scientists, and work collaboratively with faculty and staff at affiliated institutions.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

As a Public Health Advisor, you will use your knowledge of and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

• Coordinating work across Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on behavioral health regulations, financing, and parity.
• Performing work that involves using knowledge of behavioral health regulations and financing, and parity and knowledge of related subject matters in the planning, organizing, promoting, and coordinating efforts across SAMHSA to develop new and/or more effective approaches to the delivery of substance use and mental health screening, assessment, treatment and recovery services.
• Serving as a liaison between program staff and National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory (NMHSUPL) leadership and serving as a point of contact for intra-agency, federal interagency and external communication on a variety of behavorial health issues.
• Developing public-facing resources such as memos, white papers, issue briefs, journal articles, fact sheets and toolkits, as well as briefings and talking points for leadership.
• Participating in interagency task forces and workgroups and facilitating meetings with external partners and stakeholders.
• Preparing draft policy responses and related guidance resulting from inquiries from Congressional offices, private sector representatives, grantees, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Maintaining an awareness of policy and guidance provided by senior leadership and offers recommendations about respective policies, procedures, programs, and activities as required.

Purpose

Zimbabwe has a fragile health system and experiences both natural and man-made disasters including disease outbreaks and extreme weather phenomena that severely disrupt the delivery of essential health services. The National Health Strategy also identifies key issues affecting adolescents and youth’s health and well-being which include a high Adolescent Birth Rate (ABR) of 108 live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 years against a national target of 100 by 2022, and a regional average of 101 live births per 1000 women aged 15-19, high rates of adolescent pregnancies, maternal morbidity and mortality, early marriage, sexual and gender-based violence, new STIs/ HIV infections, high unmet need for family planning, drug, and substance use, and poor mental health. For adolescents, especially girls, these negative outcomes also result in school dropouts, thus preventing them from realizing their potential in life and productively contributing to national development.

Background and Justification

The World Health Organization (WHO) released SRH self-care guidelines in 2019 and Zimbabwe has not yet adapted and contextualised these. The concept of SRH self-care focuses on self-awareness, self-testing, and self-management. Evidence has shown that in resource-constrained settings with limited or disrupted adolescent and youth service coverage and access, SRH self-care plays a critical role in improving access to critical SRHR services. In a policy-restrictive environment, Self-care is a game changer in terms of adolescents' and young people’s access to and utilization of friendly services and can be a means to reduce health system costs by shifting tasks to users and caregivers and by shifting care outside of formal healthcare facilities.   In Zimbabwe, Self-care will also build upon existing movements and paradigm shifts, such as community-led response initiatives, which are powerful strategies currently supporting health systems. Against this background, we plan to develop the self-care guidelines in Zimbabwe in line with the latest WHO recommendations.

Purpose

• To develop guidelines on Self -Care interventions for SRHR in Zimbabwe in line with the latest WHO recommendations

Tasks

The consultant under the guidance of WHO technical staff will support and/or undertake the following tasks:

1. Conduct an inception meeting with the TWG for adolescents.
2. Develop national guidelines for self-care interventions for SRHR.
3. Conduct a stakeholders’ meeting involving representatives of professional associations, NGOs, Adolescents and other partners working in SRHR to present the draft national guidelines on Self-care.
4. Incorporate comments for finalization
5. Conduct a validation meeting

Key Deliverables

Deliverable will be in line with the task/TOR and will include.

1. Output 1: Inception meeting report
2. Output 2: Draft national guidelines for self-care interventions for SRHR
3. Output 3: Stakeholder dissemination meeting report.
4. Output 4: Validation meeting with key technical persons
5. Output 5:  Final draft report

Contract Duration

6 weeks

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic Substance Use & Recovery Nurse to join our healthcare teams within NHS Forth Valley prisons.

The ability to demonstrate high quality, person–centred care and good team working is essential. Keenness towards developing practice with appropriate and satisfactory clinical and interpersonal skills is necessary.

You will require being a first level registered nurse and evidence ongoing personal development within Substance Use and Recovery.

This is a nurse led service in consultation with the Clinical Lead for NHS Forth Valley Prison Healthcare and visiting Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists.

Ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery is essential for this post.

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.  More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk

Shift Pattern is Monday - Friday

Informal enquires to Ailsa Russell on Ailsa [dot] russell [at] nhs [dot] scot (Ailsa[dot]russell[at]nhs[dot]scot) or Natalie Paton on Natalie [dot] paton [at] nhs [dot] scot

The Post

This prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at the ISMH, University of Stirling offers an exciting opportunity for an outstanding researcher to join a world-leading Institute carrying out high profile public health research on alcohol, vaping and approaches to addressing the commercial determinants of health (CDOH). Please note:

• Remote working is negotiable
• We welcome part-time or full-time applicants
• We may appoint to a longer contract depending on candidate/allocated project
• More than one appointment may be made
• Start date is negotiable

In your cover letter, please indicate your level of interest and directly relevant knowledge, experience or transferable skills in the example project topics/tasks provided in the description of duties.

Description of Duties

The successful Hastings Fellow(s) will be matched to selected studies including from the following list, according to their interests and skillset, subject to discussion with appointable candidates at interview.

Alcohol:

1. Qualitative exploration of the impact of increases in alcohol prices on members of the public including those living in deprivation or with alcohol dependence
2. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of market/industry responses to alcohol price interventions using business to business publications and data
3. Advertising content analysis and/or retail store observations to examine the marketing of zero/low alcohol products
4. Quantitative analysis of how alcohol marketing affects the attitudes and alcohol consumption of adults in the UK
5. Analysis and write-up of qualitative data on alcohol licensing systems

(Other) Commercial determinants of health:

1. Analysis of primary qualitative data and development of novel frameworks for the management of commercial interactions/conflicts of interest in public health and related research
2. Qualitative exploration and strategic analysis of how CDOH are understood and handled by public health professionals

Tobacco/Nicotine:

1. Exploring youth and adult experiences of the accessibility of e-cigarettes and related policy options
2. Co-ordinating research to examine the effects of vaping in pregnancy

We expect other opportunities to arise throughout the fellowship. The successful Fellow(s) will have the opportunity to lead or co-author peer-reviewed papers from all studies on which they are actively involved. The fellowship is intended to provide an intensive working and learning experience in a dynamic and supportive research environment, and to accelerate the successful candidate’s research career through expansion of networks, skills, knowledge and experience. Other areas they could get involved in include supporting work with the World Health Organization on alcohol policy research and capacity building with low- and middle-income countries, assisting with a smoke-free homes international network (SHINE), or researching experiences of Long Covid and the health of people who live and work in prisons.

An outstanding researcher is sought who is enthusiastic, meticulous and hard-working, and who is comfortable and capable of working across several projects, taking on new topics and challenges within a supportive and friendly team. The Fellow will develop their existing skills base in either/both quantitative and qualitative methods including documentary analysis as needed on specific projects; and further build their public health knowledge and experience of study management. Depending on the project allocation, duties may involve:

• Primary data collection and analysis (interview, focus group or observational data, surveys)
• Secondary analysis (coding documentation or marketing material using established or novel frameworks; content analysis)
• Gaining appropriate ethical approvals
• Monitoring/supporting study recruitment and data collection activity
• Writing-up/presenting findings including leadership of academic papers, conference presentations, and working proactively with policymakers, NGOs, research funders and other stakeholders.

The Service 

Adults Care and Support is a business area within the Directorate of Adult Social Care. The primary purpose of ASC is to deliver its statutory duties as directed by legislation, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983, and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Through delivery of these duties' residents who have or are likely to develop Care and Support needs will be supported to 'live the lives, they want to lead'.

The role

There are exciting changes within substance misuse recovery services.  We are expanding our provision to improve capacity and quality which this post will be part of and co-located with new mental health practitioner posts, in a multi-disciplinary team based within the Recovery Hub in Southsea.  This team will directly support those individuals or families accessing the Recovery Hub with multiple needs, as well as working alongside the Recovery Workers, providing advice and guidance.

One of two qualified Social Workers you will assess the needs of adults with problematic substance use and their Carers, to then identify creative ways to meet their assessed outcomes under the Care Act 2014.    The role includes outcome led interventions, using a strength-based approach to support people to live their lives. You will be able to work collaboratively with others, maintaining a strength based and aspirational approach to achieve the outcomes the person wants.  You will be assessing clients need and agreeing a person-centred support plan, completing reviews of assessments and support plans as required.  You will be supporting people with all their health and social care needs, supporting both crisis management and mental capacity when required.  In addition, you will chair, or support other staff to chair meetings.  There ill be the opportunity to support unqualified staff and you will act as a key resource for the social care needs of the wider team caseload.

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker with a range of experience who can support us on our improvement journey. You will need to be able operate with a level of autonomy and authority using a wide range of evidence-based social work interventions and tools. You will consistently demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the full range of social work tasks, particularly in relation to Adult Safeguarding, adults with complex care and support needs, mental capacity assessments, DoLS and partnership working.

You will work with adults in need of care & support and their carer's, identifying the needs the service user prioritises and creating an assessment of their needs and a support plan based on this. 

In return we can offer you a supportive team, where you are encouraged to develop learning and development opportunities and involvement in the social work groups that support practice development.