Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-R321-24-G
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birch Hill Hospital
- Town
- HMR
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Structured Clinical Management Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
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
Pennine Care is committed to improving services for people with Personality Disorder in line with the GM model for treatment of personality disorder and the National Community Mental Health Framework.
A new service is being developed allied to the adult CMHT transformation to bring a more psychological approach to treatment and care.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Structured Clinical Management Pathway in Heywood Middleton and Rochdale(HMR). You will have access to SCM training, regular group and individual clinical supervision, and the support of a skilled and friendly team. You will work as a member of the team, providing 1-1 and group interventions to service users
with complex emotional and relational needs. You will work with a small caseload of people within the SCM programme, with relatively stable but complex presentations, and have the opportunity to offer structured and evidence-based care.
The Team is based at Birch Hill Hospital, though we work across the HMR footprint in various community/clinic settings. The Birch Hill site also has some significant benefits, including free and ample parking onsite, excellent canteen, and newly refurbished digital hub which will allow enhanced ICT support and extra space to work and meet with colleagues.
Birch Hill is also a mental health specific site, which allows close working with other secondary care colleagues on the inpatient unit, in EIT and the Complex Emotional Relational Needs (CERN) team.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person specification
education/qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in health or social care (Nursing, allied health professional, social work)
- Current registration with professional body
- Evidence of post registration training/ development
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with people with personality disorder
- Significant post registration experience working in a mental health service
- Proven experience of completing mental health assessments, risk assessments and risk management plans without direct supervision
- Experience of MDT and multiagency working
- Experience of case managing service users care
- Experience of working with service users experiencing suicidal ideation and self harm
- Experience of working to multiagency safeguarding processes
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working to a model of SCM
- Completing Care Act assessments and commissioning of services
knowledge
Essential criteria
- NICE Guidelines and current best practice in the management of people with personality disorder
- STORM principles
- Current best practice in approaches to management of self -harm
- Trauma informed approaches to care
- Group management principles
- Care Act eligibility and commissioning processes
Desirable criteria
- SCM principles
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work collaboratively with services users 1-1 and in group settings
- Evidence of ability to provide specialist mental health assessment and risk assessment/ management and be accountable for decision making
- Evidence of ability to manage a complex caseload without direct supervision
- Ability to provide therapeutic interventions for this client group
- Ability to communicate effectively and provide coherent reports and documentation according to Trust documentation standards.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other agencies in the best interests of the service user
- Ability to manage own emotions in the face of others distress
- Ability to plan own workload and prioritise without direct supervision
- Ability to be assertive and engage in difficult conversations with clients, carers and other professionals
Desirable criteria
- Ability to complete Care Act assessments and commission services
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
- Donna McGarry Clayton
- Job title
- SCM-HMR Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01706 676600
- Additional information
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