Clinical Lead CERN

Job Summary

The post holder, in conjunction with the trusts CERN best practice groups / clinical network, will lead and develop the Bolton locality CERN pathways across adult and older adult community teams, ensuring the pathways are compliant with best practice standards, providing expert support, guidance and development to the CERN senior practitioners within the teams.

Interviews to be held on 22 December 2025.

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to the community teams for the management of CERN.
• Support care coordinators and MDTs in the management of cases as required.
• Assess and develop formulations for the interventions for people with CERN in the community.
• Provide therapeutic interventions for people with CERN, including Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT).
• Deputise for the Service Manager in his/her absence and take on any delegated management duties as required.
• Provide clinical supervision to Senior Practitioners for CERN and otherszim requiring expert supervision as required.
• Provide training to workforce and EBE on therapeutic interventions.
• Ensure effective evaluation and development of the CERN pathway and service developments in line with the strategy.
• Develop effective service interfaces.
• Contribute/participate in group therapy for service users with CERN.
• Lead a Reflective Practice Group and ensure provision of groups across the locality offer.
• Identify training needs in the community teams.
• Contribute to(that the trust CERN strategy.)
• Contribute to the Operational on Call and Operational on Site rotas (formerly known as the bronze on call/site).

• Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
• We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental healthwagular and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
• Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work.
• 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.

• Date posted: 13 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for Change
• Band: 8a
• Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number:
• Job locations:
  Medowbrook unit, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, M6 8HG

• Registered Mental Health Nurse, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or similar professional qualification.
• Masters level qualification, evidence of post-qualifying education (Desirable).

• Demonstrable experience of working with this service user group.
• Post-registration experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team in a clinical setting.
• Evidence of post-registration training / development.
• Experience of participating in audit and an understandingpurity of quality improvement বির implementing PDSA cycles and action plans relating to the outcome of audits.
• Experience of service evaluation, service development and completing a training needs analysis and planning and delivering training.
• Experience of delivering key performance indicators for a service.
• Additional qualifications in psychological or psychologically informed interventions such as SCM/MBT/DBT (Desirable).

• Offer advice and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team based on best evidence.
• Contribute to clinical governance processes including completing complaints and report writing in relation to incidents.
• Lead on the implementation of the Trust-wide strategy across provider-led services within the locality ICB.
• Facilitate a culture of lifelong learning, including involvement in appraisal, Knowledge Skills Framework, and Personal Development Plans.
• Participate in and ensure provision of clinical supervision, both as supervisee and supervisor and have an…