Clinical Lead for CERN | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health care provider in Bolton is looking for a leader to develop CERN pathways for adult and older adult community teams. The role involves clinical leadership, support for care coordinators, and providing training on therapeutic interventions. Benefits include enhanced pay for evenings and weekends, generous annual leave, a strong pension scheme, and more. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in mental health leadership and intervention strategies.

Benefits

Pay Enhancements for evenings and weekends

27 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership and supervision experience.
• Knowledge of therapeutic interventions for mental health disorders.
• Ability to contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop community pathways for CERN.
• Provide clinical support and training to teams.
• Evaluate and enhance the CERN pathway and service developments.

Job description

Role Overview

The post holder, in conjunction with the trusts CERN best practice groups / clinical network, will lead and develop the Bolton locality CERN pathways across adult and older adult community teams, ensuring the pathways are complaint with best practice standards, providing expert support, guidance and development to the CERN senior practitioners within the teams.

Interviews to be held on 22 December 2025.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to the community teams for the management of CERN
• Support care coordinators and MDTs in the management of cases as required.
• Assess and develop formulations for the interventions for people with CERN in the community.
• Provide therapeutic interventions for people with CERN, to include but not limited to Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT).
• Deputise for the Service Manager in his/her absence and take on any delegated management duties as required.
• Provide clinical supervision to Senior Practitioners for CERN and others requiring expert supervision as required.
• Provide training to workforce and EBE on therapeutic interventions.
• Ensure effective evaluation and development of the CERN pathway and service developments in line with the strategy.
• Develop effective service interfaces.
• Contribute/participate in group therapy for service users with CERN.
• Lead a Reflective Practice Group and ensure provision of groups across the locality offer.
• Identify training needs in the community teams.
• Contribute to the development of the trust CERN strategy.
• Contribute to the Operational on Call and Operational on Site rot (formerly known as the bronze on call/site).

Benefits and Compensation

• Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

About Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Please see attached job description and person specification.

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.