CERN Senior Clinical Practioner

GMMH are developing services in line with the organisational objectives to ensure that care is delivered is trauma informed and close to home. We have an exciting opportunity that is part of this development journey for our inpatient services.

As a Senior Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crisis. You will provide specialist psychological and relational interventions, support trauma-informed care approaches, and contribute to the development of staff expertise in working with Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN).

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), offering consultation, supervision, and training to enhance staff confidence in managing emotional intensity, relational difficulties, and crisis behaviours. Your leadership will ensure a compassionate, recovery-focused environment, improving patient experiences and outcomes.

• Be part of a progressive and supportive team committed to improving inpatient mental health care and crisis intervention.
• Access to ongoing professional development, training, and supervision.
• Opportunities to shape service delivery and influence best practices.
• Work in an environment that values compassion, collaboration, and innovation.

• Provide specialist assessment and interventions for individuals with complex emotional and relational needs.
• Support inpatient teams in delivering trauma-informed, psychologically informed care.
• Offer clinical supervision, consultation, and training to enhance staff skills and resilience.
• Lead on service development initiatives, ensuring best practices in relational and emotional needs care.
• Work collaboratively with MDTs, urgent care and community teams, as well as external agencies to facilitate safe and effective transitions of care.
• Contribute to risk management, crisis intervention, and de-escalation strategies.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over
7000members of staff, who deliver services from more than
160
locations.

We provide inpatient and great 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.

To deliver the therapeutic intervention and relevant clinical pathways to an identified caseload of people who present with complex emotional and relational needs, in line with the evidence base and best practice. Examples may include the SCM / MBT pathway and model, via individual and group sessions.

To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a Senior Practitioner working with people who present with complex emotional and relational needs.

To demonstrate specialised clinical and practice expertise via therapeutic interventions (individual, group or family), supervision and modelling good practice.

To undertake and record comprehensive risk assessment, devise and implement risk assessment plans for service users at risk of vulnerability, self-harm, self-neglect, or risk of physical, sexual, emotional harm to others, ensuring compliance with the GMMH risk assessment processes.

To develop psychologically informed formulations of complex difficulties and the system around individuals to inform the MDTs treatment and management of these difficulties.

To provide direct evidence based therapeutic interventions as appropriate based on the recovery model, the personalisation agenda and a trauma informed perspective.

To develop and support the skills of other team members by providing specialised and structured clinical supervision, consultation and liaison work and opportunities for co-working.

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits Pay Enhancements:

Band Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33…