Clinical Specialist - Complex Emotional

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Specialist - Complex Emotional Needs

The closing date is 21 January 2026

To support North Yorkshire & York Community Mental Health Transformation and improve the care of people with complex emotional needs, we have a challenging yet exciting and dynamic part time position for a Band 7 clinical Nurse Specialist to work within the Harrogate and Rural District area.

The post holder will be clinically supervised by the Personality and Relational Specialist Clinicians. We require someone with drive and compassion to work predominantly in a co‑working capacity to increase access to psychologically informed care across local community systems within a new integrated ‘place‑based’ service delivery model. This involves supporting the development and implementation of high‑quality evidence‑based interventions and support for people with complex emotional needs, who present with severe and multiple disadvantages, including substance misuse.

It is an essential requirement that applicants have demonstrable experience working with people with complex emotional needs and knowledge of Trauma‑Informed Care and Structured Clinical Management (SCM).

Desirable training includes Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) or Multi‑systemic Therapy (MST).

As this post is relatively new to the Trust there will be multiple opportunities for the successful candidate to be involved in developing the service and role.

To promote psychologically informed care across systems for people presenting with complex emotional needs, supporting services to increase access to high‑quality specialist interventions. The post holder will deliver and support local mental health teams, hospital staff, voluntary, community and social enterprise providers and PCNs in providing interventions, including supervision, case consultation and liaison. This post will increase the resilience of the ‘place‑based’ system and improve the care and support of people who lead chaotic lives, presenting with multiple challenges to several services.

You will co‑work with other providers to enable early intervention and least restrictive practice, embedding care within the person's community. You will develop and deliver group interventions to system partners and provide supervision/consultation to secondary care staff delivering Structured Clinical Management to service users.

You will support the local ‘place’ and strengthen links across the whole system, offer consultation and support the assessment and engagement of individuals who present with substance misuse, high‑risk behaviours and emotional and interpersonal difficulties. You will increase the community's knowledge and skills by providing training across services, including VCSE.

You will promote positive attitudes towards service users with complex needs, to maintain responsive and non‑stigmatising services.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care – our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

System Responsibilities as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme:

• Develop and enhance relationships within the local mental health system, including with…