The University of California, Davis, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting for a Health Sciences Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor to serve as teaching attending physician in its Addiction Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic with a culturally diverse patient population.

The applicant(s) will also be supervising general psychiatry residents with their addiction cases, and both general and combined residents in IM/Psych FM/Psych.

Experience with the full range of addictions treatment modalities highly desired.

Time is allocated for didactic teaching, case conferences, and supervision. In addition, the applicant(s) will engage in scholarly or creative activities derived from and in support of their clinical teaching, professional and service activities. The candidates will also evaluate and treat their own patients.

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) requires a Policy Advisor to provide support for highly complex policy initiatives, as well as for program design to support the AGCO’s and government’s policy agenda as related to the alcohol, gaming, cannabis and horse racing sectors in Ontario.

The incumbent will perform critical work in supporting the development of standards, policies, and other regulatory mechanisms required to implement government and AGCO initiatives.

The ideal candidate will think strategically and critically while assessing policy and program problems to develop feasible and innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will have proven ability in planning and organizing complex projects under tight time constraints and competing priorities. You will have working knowledge of computer software packages, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to contribute to the design and preparation of effective policy options, presentation materials and correspondence in support of policy and/or program development and implementation.

The Project

You will join our growing research team in working to understand and support innovative projects in the family justice and criminal justice systems. You will design and deliver quantitative and qualitative research, creating insights by working with service users and professionals at the front line of the system and analysing imperfect, real-world data sets. You will also work with our practice development and policy teams to translate your research findings into meaningful change. On the family justice side, you will explore approaches like such as Family Drug and Alcohol Courts: problem-solving courts which aim to improve outcomes for children involved in care proceedings. They offer a new way of supporting parents to overcome issues like substance misuse, mental health and domestic abuse that have put their children at risk of serious harm. As well as working on family justice, you will also contribute to research around criminal justice innovations such as youth diversion which seeks to prevent young people from getting caught up in the criminal justice system. We are a charity which seeks to build a justice system which every citizen believes is fair and effective. We champion innovative approaches and evidence-led policy reform.

The role will involve:

• Generating insights by coordinating and holding conversations with practitioners and service users;
• Identifying data sources, submitting data requests, and collating and analysing quantitative data;
• Authoring reports, briefings and other written outputs;
• Presenting research findings to practitioners, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders;
• Supporting innovative projects to develop and implement data collection systems and to monitor their activities and impact;
• Reviewing and summarising research literature;

PhD question:

• Can we isolate the relationships between cannabis, tobacco and psychiatric disease through triangulation of data from countries that smoke cannabis with, and without tobacco?

Training highlights:

• You will become an expert on the scientific impact of smoking cannabis and tobacco on psychiatric diseases.
• You will learn to use exciting, novel and cutting-edge statistical and causal inference methods.
• You will learn how to analyse genetic data and apply Mendelian randomization and polygenic risk score analysis.
• This research will have an international impact.
• You will have an opportunity to present at international conferences.

Internship possibility at the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, Drug Prevention and Health Branch, at UNODC, Vienna.

Details under: https://bit.ly/2r5NfuR.

Closing date is 3 December 2019.

Addiction Specialist

To work as a part of Sligo Social Services Multi-Disciplinary team to deliver a Housing First’ approach to individuals experiencing long term homelessness in Counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.

The role of the Addiction Specialist will be based in Letterkenny Co Donegal on three days per week and in Sligo town on two days per week.

The successful candidate will be offered a fixed-term contract of employment for 35 hours per week.

Successful applicants will have :

• Qualification at degree level in Nursing, Social Work, Social Care or related discipline
• Post Graduate qualification in addiction
• Registration with ACI
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Addiction Services
• Experience of working with service users who are or have been homeless
• Experience of working with service users identified as having a dual diagnosis
• Access to car and full driving licence.

Please view Job Description and Specs (see below) for full details.

The Senior Operations Manager assists the Director of Membership & Affiliates in managing the membership and affiliates department and manages the main office operations and association-wide information technology.

In addition, the Senior Operations Manager will assist leadership with event and vendor coordination for NAADAC national, regional, and state events and pieces of training and exhibiting opportunities, and higher-level administrative tasks as needed.

Finally, the Senior Operations Manager will assist in managing the Membership Services Coordinators team. Because of his/her involvement in matters related to his/her responsibilities, the Senior Operations Manager will be required to communicate frequently with other agency directors, as well as the NAADAC Board of Directors.

The Knowledge Broker is responsible for developing relationships with partners to get the right information into the right hands at the right time, and for supporting the delivery, uptake, use and impact of evidence-informed practices, tools, programs and products for those working in the field of substance abuse.
 

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of knowledge mobilization plans on assigned national priorities.
• Work with colleagues in research and partnerships to interpret and summarize research findings to form the basis of knowledge mobilization plans, products, tools or activities to inform practice, policy and program development in the field of substance abuse.
• Identify and bring together key partners, subject-matter experts, influential knowledge users and other key stakeholders to share evidence or knowledge to build the foundation for solutions in the substance abuse field.
• Lead consultations with stakeholders to identify their needs in accessing, interpreting and using evidence from research and other sources, and help build their capacity through the provision of resources, training and mentoring.
• Lead collaboration efforts with a variety of stakeholders to negotiate creative, practical and relevant approaches to knowledge mobilization for sustainable solutions and change.​
• Work closely with national priority advisors and communications advisors to identify partners and stakeholders across Canada, and ensure they have access to the CCSA products and services to address their needs and issues.
• Continuously establish and maintain networks of stakeholders and partners that can both benefit from and contribute to the collective efforts to reduce the harms and improve the care for those affected by substance abuse.

The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education is seeking a senior faculty member (Associate or Full Professor) in the area of Prevention Science focusing on individuals at-risk for poor health and/or education outcomes in family, school, and/or community settings. This unique college-wide faculty search is designed to attract a scholar who will add to the college’s strong academic and research programs in prevention and education and health disparities and may bring research expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Social determinants of education and/or health disparities
• Community-level influences on health behaviour
• School violence prevention
• Culturally responsive behavioural interventions to address school discipline disparities
• Development and implementation of equity-focused social-emotional learning interventions in schools
• Family-centred interventions to support positive education and health outcomes
• Healthy behaviour and stress coping interventions (e.g., physical activity, emotional regulation, etc.) among vulnerable populations
• Immigrant health and education disparities

PhD question: 

• Can we isolate the relationships between cannabis, tobacco and psychiatric disease through triangulation of data from countries that smoke cannabis with, and without tobacco?

Background:

Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable illness and death. In the UK, smoking prevalence has decreased from 46% during the 1970s to about 16% in recent years. However, smoking prevalence has not reduced in people with mental disorders, in 2015 it was 32%.

Cannabis is gaining increasing acceptance as a medicinal and recreational drug and prevalence of use is rising worldwide. There are concerns about the adverse associations of cannabis and tobacco with risk of psychiatric disease. However, the association between cannabis and psychiatric disease may be confounded by tobacco-use.

Here we propose an innovative approach to address this problem, by comparing estimates of the association between cannabis use and psychiatric disease in cohorts where cannabis is generally utilised without tobacco (North America) to cohorts where it is generally utilised with tobacco (Europe).

How does the social environment help to explain the relationships between deprivation, mental health, and alcohol use?

This PhD studentship will investigate how differences in the social environment and social relationships might help to explain the association between deprivation, mental health, and alcohol use. The successful student will explore whether neighbourhood characteristics, including cohesion and attachment to the community, influence the relationships between: 

i) deprivation and patterns of alcohol use

ii) mental health, wellbeing and patterns of alcohol use.

This could inform future systemic and community-led initiatives to address alcohol-related harm.

The supervisory team has complementary expertise in alcohol epidemiology (Prof Sumnall), qualitative research (Dr Tod) and systematic review (Ms Jones), and mental health research and statistical modelling (Dr Goodwin; University of Liverpool). The student will benefit from the multidisciplinary expertise of supervisors/advisors, as well as the training/support opportunities provided by cross Faculty/Institutional working.

The studentship provides funds for full-time tuition fees (UK/EU students only) and a stipend at the LJMU standard rate

Project Assistant: Release are seeking a project assistant to support our brilliant Y-Stop project.

Y-Stop is a stop and search project created by young people for young people. Through tools, advice and training Y-Stop provides the skills and knowledge that young people need to confidently yet safely handle their interactions with police and limit the negative impact of these encounters. Since it launched in 2014 Y-Stop has produced a number of resources to support and educate young people about stop and search including a short film, an app to film and complain about stop and search, a website, printed resources and a successful peer training programme.  The project works collaboratively and closely with StopWatch a coalition of academics, lawyers, young people and activists campaigning for stop and search reform.

This research aims to identify novel mechanisms underlying the relationship between alcohol consumption, hangover and anxiety, with the potential to find new therapeutic targets for interventions aimed at reducing alcohol consumption and/or anxiety. 

To be competitive, you should have a first-class or high 2:1 (or equivalent) undergraduate degree in Psychology and/or an MSc in Psychology or Research Methods at merit or distinction level.

Path to Recovery (P2R) is an innovative community drug and alcohol service offering interventions to residents in Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire. P2R is an East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) service and forms part of a network of addictions services within the Trust.

This consultant post has been substantially redesigned to focus on outreach, joint working with mental health colleagues and managing only individuals with dual diagnosis and complexity around their substance misuse. There is a strong emphasis on education and training with opportunities for research and service development.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is seeking a full-time, temporary (6 months) Occupational Therapist to work in the General Forensic Unit B (LGUB 1-3). 

Using evidence based intervention, clients are provided with specialized psychiatric and discipline specific assessment along with intensive care using Cognitive Adaptation Training principles.

As an Occupational Therapist you will be working toward enabling patients, through assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to re-integrate in to the community.

This studentship, hosted by the Institute of Health & Society at Newcastle University, is open to social science candidates or those with relevant professional qualifications with interests in children and families. The specific research project will be determined by the interests of the successful candidate. In particular, applications will be welcomed that relate to:

• Parental substance misuse
• Substance misuse and the family
• Familial risk factors (including intimate partner abuse, mental health, offending behaviour) and childhood adversity
• Early help and preventative interventions
• Looked after children and care leavers
• Developing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in social care.

This PhD studentship will focus on scoping and developing a prototype intervention for use as a public mental health intervention in settings with children and young people, for example, families, schools or communities.

In the Prevention Science Group at Oxford Brookes University, there is an emphasis on co-production and the employment of systematic frameworks in the approach to intervention development.

An opening exists for a Research Fellow to work within the UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group at UCL as part of a 3-year research project funded by the National Institute of Health Research.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide academic leadership on a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of the Drink Less smartphone app, collecting and analysing data, and the writing of relevant research papers.

Applications are invited for an experienced researcher to join the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute to contribute to a UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) Consortium - SPECTRUM (Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harM - www.ukctas.net/SPECTRUM).

The post holder will contribute to the development of a programme of high quality research on the commercial determinants of health focusing on tobacco, alcohol and food. 

Turning Point has been providing drug and alcohol services in the South West of England for over two decades. We aim to increase the number of substance misusing clients entering and successfully completing treatment, reduce substance-related harm and improve the quality of life for our clients, their families and communities.

We are now seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, dynamic and passionate Independent doctor to join our multi-disciplinary team offering comprehensive specialist clinical prescribing services and a range of psychosocial interventions across hub and satellite locations across Somerset/Wiltshire and Swindon.