Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Complex Needs Service Mental Health Practitioner / SCM practitioner
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Complex Needs Service - Structured Clinical Management Practitioner
Are you passionate about supporting clients who may have ‘fallen through the gaps’ and interested in transforming services? If so, we have an exciting role in our Complex Needs Service for a Structured Clinical Management Practitioner. The role is based in Macclesfield with some cross-site travelling within East-Cheshire.
Our Role
Our role within the Complex Needs Service offers many benefits including:
- A friendly and welcoming team
- Flexible working considered
- Weekly group clinical supervision and regular individual supervision
- SCM training provided if required
- Paid additional training in other therapeutic approaches
- Secondments from internal CWP teams can be considered
- Opportunities to attend conferences and be involved with clinical research
Responsibilities
The Complex Needs Service offers assessment, formulation, and psychologically informed treatments for adults who may attract a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder.’ We offer NICE recommended therapies including Structured Clinical Management, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, and Mentalisation Based Therapy in a community setting lasting up to 18 months. Our practitioners hold a limited caseload to allow for relational ways of working and enable clients to reach their goals.
Key Responsibilities
- To support the implementation of the SCM pathway for clients with complex emotional difficulties, including clients with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD).
- To manage a capped caseload and deliver interventions which align to the SCM framework i.e. Assessment phase, stabilization phase, and intervention phase.
- To work collaboratively with clients to develop a shared understanding/formulation of needs. To hold a supportive and collaborative therapeutic stance to support clients to take a problem-solving approach.
- To support the delivery of the SCM problem-solving group or similar psychological intervention for clients with complex emotional difficulties.
- To attend and participate in regular SCM supervision.
- To work as a role model to other staff, supporting the delivery of evidence-based interventions to clients with symptoms linked to complex emotional difficulties.
- To advocate for clients who may have Complex Emotional Difficulties. To promote collaborative working with carers, supporting a joint partnership and engagement in care planning as agreed with clients.
- To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a SCM practitioner.
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About Us
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool, and Stockport.
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Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation, and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Joining Us
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction/initial training requirements of the role.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
Contact Us
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Nichola Martin
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: nichola.martin3@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01625 712100
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
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