Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CERN and TIC Lead | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent, full-time, Consultant Clinical Psychologist to help further develop, embed and lead the specialist care for individuals with Complex Emotional & Relational Needs (CERN) across the borough of Oldham. A key aspect of this role will be to support the transformation of community mental health services, leading change, ensuring appropriate governance, QI to improve care across services and strong MDT working. As part of Pennine Care's commitment to psychological ways of working across the trust, the successful postholder will join the borough collective leadership team, working closely with operational, quality and medical colleagues to deliver outstanding care across Oldham. You will work closely with colleagues across teams, including structured clinical management (SCM) practitioners, neighbourhood mental health team (NMHT), specialist mental health team, DBT, MBT and DTC service and acute colleagues. There are 4 other Consultant Psychologists leading the CERN pathway across the trusts other 4 boroughs- who you will work alongside.

• Take a strategic clinical lead within Oldham for service provision for people with complex emotional and relational needs (CERN) across the adult pathway, including older adults.
• Support and promote the development and delivery of specialist pathways of provision within the borough, this will include both community and acute settings, ensuring individuals with CERN receive trauma-informed care.
• Enhance a psychologically and trauma-informed approach to leadership across services within the borough by joining the borough leadership team to create a quadrumvirate leadership model.
• Support colleagues and services to work within a 'one system' approach, ensuring cohesive MDT teams that provide outstanding care.
• Support the Psychological Therapies leadership structure for CERN in relation to strategic development of services for people with CERN across the GM footprint.
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.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel