CEN Clinical Lead

As part of Community Transformation, a Complex Emotional Needs Pathway has been developed across the four areas of the Black Country. It focuses on improving experiences and outcomes for our service users who primarily attract a diagnosis of Personality Disorder, who may frequently present with histories of severe trauma and secondary diagnoses add to their complexity. Generic services struggle to engage them, and they present with high risk, leading to repeated and sometimes long-term use of urgent care and in-patient services. We have designed an innovative and psychologically lead virtual multi-disciplinary team, who will both work closely together with the local CMHTs. We offer 'WRAP' around care boosting the provision to these service users. We will also have close links with our four DBT Teams, the Community Enablement and Recovery Team, Assertive Outreach Practitioners and the Recovery College., You will be responsible for: targeting and identifying highly complex and risky service users and developing high quality, detailed and formulation driven risk management and care plans. your work will be a combination of engaging with service users themselves and leading and supporting the B6 CEN Practitioners and Recovery Workers. you will liaise tightly with CMHT colleagues to ensure that positive risk management strategies and care plans are carried out with support of our Key Workers. The intensity and frequency of contacts is likely to be high and therefore caseloads low. You will have the opportunity to focus creatively on individuals on your caseload, both receiving and offering supervision and reflective practice and training. You will be expected to engage in regular supervision and be able to tolerate and work with feedback. You will be expected to take up training opportunities in relevant approaches, such as Structured Clinical Management, CBT or DBT. You will be an
essential member of the CEN Pathway leadership team, focusing on developing operational, clinical and strategic direction of this new Pathway.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated practitioner into our Band 7 CEN Clinical Lead role, to link in, primarily, with Sandwell services but also to support service users across the trust. This is a fantastic opportunity for a registered mental health professional (CPN, OT or Social Worker) to work at a senior level, be involved in service development, leadership whilst sustaining a strong clinical focus.

Black Country Healthcare covers three towns and one city, and is home to a highly diverse population, with areas of socio-economic deprivation. we aim to recruit a workforce that is representative of our population and inclusive practice is at the heart of our Trust values, with the aim that everyone has a voice that needs to be heard. We believe in a culture of compassion and strongly promote staff Wellbeing initiatives.