Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-R378-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birch Hill Hospital,
- Town
- Wardle, Rochdale
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CERN Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent, full-time, Consultant Clinical Psychologist to help further develop, embed and lead the specialist Complex Emotional & Relational Needs (CERN) pathway across the borough of HMR.
A key aspect of this role will be to support the transformation of community mental health services in line with the ambitions of the Long-Term Plan.
There have been exciting developments within the CERN pathway in HMR over the past year, but there are still opportunities for the postholder to come and shape service delivery. You will join a team of structured clinical management (SCM) practitioners, secondary care colleagues, DBT, MBT and DTC service, acute service colleagues and there are 4 other Consultant Psychologists leading the CERN pathway across the trusts other 4 boroughs- who you will work alongside.
Main duties of the job
• Take a strategic clinical lead within HMR for policy/ service developments in relation to the provision of services for adults (including older adults) with complex emotional and relational needs and/ or a diagnosis of personality disorder.
• Provide expert leadership and supervision to a range of MDT colleagues across relevant service areas including inpatients, community and specialist services.
• Support the Trust Lead for CERN at a GM level and will contribute to the strategic development of services for people with complex emotional and relational needs.
• Take a lead in the development of multi-agency leadership teams within the locality which will comprise experts by experience, experts by occupation, carers and other stakeholders in order to develop pathways and networks.
• Work alongside existing networks to develop the service-user involvement schemes for people with CERN within PCFT.
• Carry a small specialised clinical case load and will take a lead on the development and provision of specific psychotherapeutic programmes for people with CERN including Structured Clinical Management.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further detail and to support your application for this post.
Our trust values are:
Kindness
Fairness
Ingenuity
Determination
Does this sound like you? Are you interested to know more? If so we’d love you to join us.
For informal enquiries please don’t hesitate to contact: Dr Miranda Budd, Associate Network Director for Psychological Therapies. [email protected] 07745741681
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate Clinical Psychology degree, or pre 1996 qualified, a Masters Clinical Psychology degree with evidence of post qualification Doctorate level equivalent CPD, clinical and research knowledge and experience.
- Eligible to be a member of the British Psychological Society.
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post graduate qualification in a psychological therapy approach
- Evidence of post qualification training in psychological therapies for personality disorder
- Evidence of substantial continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Management and or leadership qualification (certificate level or above) or equivalent experience
- Evidence of post qualification supervision in psychological therapies for personality disorder
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and track record in senior clinical leadership within psychological therapy services.
- Significant post qualification experience of delivering evidencebased interventions to people with a diagnosis of personality disorder or people who present with complex emotional and relational needs and their families: e.g. DBT, SCM, MBT
- Significant post qualification experience of supervising others including psychological therapists and other professions in the delivery of evidence based psychological therapies.
- Experience of training multi professional groups
- Significant experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency work including consultation.
- Substantial experience of risk assessment, risk management and safeguarding.
- Experience of working in a multicultural context.
- Significant experience of service development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of effective multi-agency working inc. with 3rd sector partners and/or other public sector providers.
- Experience of line management
- Experience of pathway development
- Experience of working across adult psychological therapy services and across the lifespan including older adult
- Research, service evaluation and clinical audit experience
- Delivering information and presentations in high pressured situations.
- Experience of working alongside Experts by Experience and Carers in service design/delivery
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current government strategy and policy relating to adult mental health.
- An awareness of the NHS Long Term Plan and implications for service delivery
- A broad understanding of national strategy in relation to the development of services across the new landscape of Integrated Care Systems and Primary Care Networks.
- Extensive knowledge of the evidence base of psychological interventions for people with complex emotional and relational needs, history of trauma and diagnosis of personality disorders.
- Knowledge of the principles of trauma informed practice and implications for services design
Desirable criteria
- A wide knowledge of national clinical governance policy drivers for a range of service delivery points, such as the NHS code of confidentiality, best practice in clinical risk management, clinical complaints, research governance, NICE clinical pathways etc
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed clinical skills in the delivery of psychological approaches and interventions in addition to assessment and formulation.
- Highly developed supervisory skills.
- Evidence of compassionate and supportive leadership style.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, featuring: breadth of outlook and skill necessary to establish effective working relationships with staff at all levels within and outside the organisation.
- Ability to work in partnership with other key professionals within and outside the organisation and a partnership approach to work across agencies.
- Strong leadership capacity within a rapidly evolving setting.
- Evidence of the ability to lead change initiatives and turn strategic vision into practical reality.
- Evidence of business acumen skills
- Able to use initiative & creativity in problem solving
- Ability to manage complex interpersonal negotiations with staff groups and stake holders.
- Evidence of ability to utilise clinical and managerial supervisory structures to deliver safe and effective services.
- Ability to work under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage budgets
Work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- Evidence of the ability to prioritise workload and achieve objectives within agreed deadlines.
- Able to inspire, committed to high quality mental health care.
- Ability to problem solve and find solutions to complex problems.
- A demonstrable commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equality and diversity.
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Miranda Budd
- Job title
- Associate Network Director Psychological Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07745741681
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