Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

Structured Clinical Management Practitioner

The closing date is 09 February 2026

Whilst we welcome all applications from all suitable candidates, unfortunately, we will not be offering sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for a new staff member who shares our passion and commitment to work with individuals with Personality disorder to improve their wellbeing and achieve great outcomes together. We have a full‑time vacancy for a band 5 worker to join us and offer structured clinical management. Structured Clinical Management is an evidence‑based approach for working with people diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorders.

Training will be provided, and this offers an exciting opportunity to join an established group of practitioners to offer a quadrant‑wide therapy service within the community mental health team, as well as joining the wider network of therapists across the trust.

The service works to meet the needs of service users who are experiencing significant difficulties with emotional instability and impulsive behaviours, working within the local multi‑disciplinary community teams. We pride ourselves on the quality of the service that we offer and place importance on supporting all our therapists to provide great care, with an emphasis placed on maintaining and developing skills and regular supervision.

The trust is committed to delivering trauma‑informed mental health care.

This post would suit someone with a core mental health qualification and registration (including those recently qualified in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or other appropriately registered therapists – see person specification for details) or a psychology graduate (eligible for BPS registration) with more than 2 years’ experience in community mental health settings. The successful applicant will also have an interest in working collaboratively with service users to develop their skills to improve their ability to tolerate and manage strong emotion.

It would suit someone who loves working as part of a team and alongside multidisciplinary colleagues. Ideally we are looking for someone with experience of working with this service user group in any care setting, or someone who has transferable skills.

The role will be interesting and varied, and the worker will have an opportunity to contribute to our group therapies programme for this client group. There are also excellent opportunities to progress and undertake further training. The post will be based out of one of the community teams, but the ability to work flexibly as the needs of the service demand will be essential.

The post holder would expect some travel within their working week.

• Qualification and continuing registration in one of the core mental health professions (e.g. psychiatric nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or graduate worker with substantial other relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field. Continuing registration with the body overseeing practice of the core mental health profession, e.g. NMC or HCPC; for Graduate Workers registration with BPS.
• Completion of SCM Training (Short course) or willingness and aptitude to train.

• Experience of assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, adult mental health and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including adults with personality disorders.
• Experience of multi‑disciplinary team working and inter‑agency collaboration.
• Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks.
• Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures.
• Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems.
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
• Experience of working in a community mental health setting.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Communicated condition‑related information to clients, relatives, undertakes…