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As GP Co-Chair, you will lead and shape the educational direction of the annual MAPC conference, ensuring it remains the UK’s premier event for healthcare professionals working in substance and behavioural addiction. You will represent the GP and wider healthcare professional perspectives across vision/purpose, content and speakers. You will help maintain high standards of educational value, clinical relevance and practical applicability for delegates.
Job Responsibility:
Set the overall theme and direction of each conference cycle
Co-develop the conference aims and learning objectives
Ensure the content remains clinically rigorous and responsive to evolving challenges in substance and behavioural addictions, policy and primary care
Co-develop the conference programme which may include but be not limited to: plenaries, workshops, panel sessions, posters, abstracts, social events, sponsored symposium, exhibition, performances, competitions etc
In partnership with the conference Co-chair, oversee abstract selection, peer review, session formats and speaker invitations
Identify and recruit suitable high-quality speakers (UK and international, adhering to set budgets), ensuring diversity, inclusion and balance in topics
Oversee peer review of abstracts and conflict of interest declarations
Monitor delegate feedback and evaluation, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
Develop strategies to mitigate risks (e.g. speaker dropouts, schedule conflicts)
Provide oversight during the live conference (co-chairing sessions, handling contingencies)
Review post-conference outcomes, feedback, and lead in planning improvements for future editions
Act as a public face and ambassador of the conference in the GP / primary care / substance misuse and behavioural addictions communities
Promote via your networks calls for abstracts, encourage GP and wider healthcare professional participation, and support diversity of delegates
Present or speak at the conference (e.g. opening/closing, plenary, panel)
Meet with RCGP team and conference Co-chair to review progress at key delivery milestones
Requirements:
Current practising GP in the UK, with experience in or strong interest in substance misuse, behavioural addiction or related fields
Demonstrable knowledge of addiction care, substance misuse policy, treatment pathways, harm reduction, inequalities in addiction and primary care roles in this space
Previous involvement in academic, educational or conference programme design / speaker committees (e.g. organising workshops, educational events)
Excellent communication and networking skills, credibility among GP and addictions communities
Ability to attend the 2-day conference in person
Strategic thinking, decision making, and ability to balance clinical, educational and organisational perspectives
Willingness to champion inclusion, diversity and equity in speaker selection and content
Nice to have:
Previous conference chairing or co-chairing experience
Publication or research experience in addictions / substance misuse
Experience liaising with partner organisations, sponsors, health agencies or policy stakeholders
Familiarity with hybrid / online conference technologies and formats
What we offer:
Leadership role and visibility within RCGP, primary care and the substance and behavioural addictions community
Opportunity to shape national discourse in addictions care in primary care
Networking with leading healthcare professionals, policymakers, researchers, sponsors and exhibitors
The satisfaction of delivering a high-impact conference that influences practice, policy and patient care