Clinical Lead for CERN Wigan

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead for Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN) to provide clinical leadership across Wigan pathways and to drive service development in collaboration with Experts by Experience.

The post holder will supervise locality teams, support MDT professionals, and deliver therapeutic interventions including SCM and MBT, with opportunities to train and accreditation across core modalities as part of ongoing professional

Responsibilities

• Lead the Wigan CERN pathways across adult and older adult community services, ensuring best practice and collaboration with Experts by Experience (EBE).
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to locality teams.
• Through consultation with people with CERN, support MDT professionals in case management as required.
• Provide therapeutic interventions for complex emotional and relational needs, including SCM and MBT.
• Provide clinical supervision to Senior Practitioners for CERN and other staff requiring expert supervision.
• Provide training on therapeutic interventions for CERN.
• Ensure effective evaluation and development of CERN pathways in line with Trust strategy.
• Collaborate with wider psychological professionals and contribute to the Psychological Therapies Hub and community mental health service transformation.
• Train/accredit in core modalities (SCM, MBT, EMDR, CBT-P&B, CAT, or BFT) or undertake training/accreditation as required.

Job description

We are seeking an innovative, responsive, and adaptable Clinical Lead for Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN) to provide clinical leadership to the SCMHT CERN service, drive service development, support the wider team, and promote collaborative, team-based ways of working that deliver high-quality care and positive outcomes for service users., The post holder will -

Clinically lead the Wigan CERN pathways across adult and older adult community services, ensuring the pathways are compliant with best practice and standards and are codesigned, coproduced and evaluated with experts by experience (EBE).

Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to the locality teams.

Through consultation and direct engagement with people with CERN, support other MDT professionals in the management of cases as required.

To provide therapeutic interventions as required for people with complex emotional and relational needs, to include but not limited to Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT).

To provide clinical supervision to Senior Practitioners for CERN and other staff requiring expert supervision as required.

Provide training as appropriate on therapeutic interventions for CERN.

To ensure effective evaluation and development of the CERN pathways and associated service developments in line with the Trust strategy.

To work in collaboration with wider psychological professionals and engage in the continued development of the Psychological Therapies Hub and the wider transformation of community mental health services.

The successful candidate will be trained/accredited, or willing to undertake training/accreditation, in one of the six core therapeutic modalities: SCM, MBT, EMDR, CBT-P&B, CAT, or BFT.

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.