Complex Needs Service Mental Health Practitioner / SCM Practitioner
The closing date is 21 June 2026.
Are you passionate about supporting clients who may have ‘fallen through the gaps’ and interested in transforming services? If so, we have an exciting role in our Complex Needs Service for a Structured Clinical Management Practitioner. The role is based in Macclesfield with some cross‑site travelling within East‑Cheshire.
Benefits
- A friendly and welcoming team
- Flexible working considered
- Weekly group clinical supervision and regular individual supervision
- We can provide SCM training if required and we can also offer paid additional training in other therapeutic approaches
- Secondments from internal CWP teams can be considered
- Opportunities to attend conferences and be involved with clinical research
Our Complex Needs Service offers assessment, formulation and psychologically informed treatments for adults who may attract a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’. We offer NICE recommended therapies including Structured Clinical Management, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy and Mentalisation Based Therapy in a community setting lasting up to 18 months. Our practitioners hold a limited caseload to allow for relational ways of working and enable clients to reach their goals.
Please note this opportunity welcomes applications from a variety of professional backgrounds – including but not limited to nursing, social work and occupational therapists.
Please note interviews will be face to face only.
Main duties of the job
- To support the implementation of the SCM pathway for clients with complex emotional difficulties, including clients with a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD).
- To manage a capped caseload and deliver interventions which align to the SCM framework (assessment phase, stabilisation phase and intervention phase).
- To work collaboratively with clients to develop a shared understanding / formulation of needs, and hold a supportive and collaborative therapeutic stance to support clients to take a problem‑solving approach.
- To support the delivery of the SCM problem‑solving group or similar psychological intervention for clients with complex emotional difficulties.
- To attend and participate in regular SCM supervision.
- To work as a role model to other staff, supporting the delivery of evidence‑based interventions to clients with symptoms linked to complex emotional difficulties.
- To advocate for clients who may have complex emotional difficulties, promote collaborative working with carers, supporting a joint partnership and engagement in care planning as agreed with clients.
- To demonstrate the application of specialist skills and knowledge in order to maintain professional competence and fitness to practice as a SCM practitioner.
Qualifications
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with the appropriate professional body.
- Professional knowledge acquired through a relevant degree or experience plus relevant experience working with complex cases.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Relevant mentorship qualification as required by governing body.
Knowledge and Expertise
- In‑depth knowledge and experience of working within the recovery focused philosophy framework.
- Knowledge of delivering individual service‑user focused specialist assessments.
- Knowledge of evidence‑based interventions which are measurable and promote the service users journey along the recovery pathway.
- In‑depth knowledge of delivering psychosocial interventions (PSI).
- Knowledge of physical health needs.
- Professional knowledge from a relevant degree plus experience for working in the community.
- Highly developed accurate physical skills and ability to manipulate fine tools and materials.
- Knowledge of developing specialist programmes of care, care packages.
- Knowledge of providing specialised advice in relation to care.
- Knowledge of recording personally generated information.
- Knowledge of working closely with commissioners and care providers.
- Knowledge of legal frameworks including the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
- Experience of undertaking surveys or audits necessary to own work.
- Experience of undertaking research and development activity and clinical trials.
- Knowledge of complex care management including the development of bespoke support packages.
Experience
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with adults with mental health problems with a complex nature.
- Experience of planning and organising complex activities or programmes requiring formulation and adjustment.
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care, care packages.
- Experience of providing specialised advice in relation to care.
- Experience of working closely with commissioners and care providers.
- Experience of following policies and providing comments to propose changes to practice/procedures in own work area.
- Experience of safe management of equipment and resources.
- Experience of being an authorised signatory.
- Experience of conducting professional/clinical supervision.
- Ability to undertake surveys, R&D activity or audits as necessary to own work.
- Ability to regularly undertake equipment testing and adaptation.
- Experience of working within a rehabilitation framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Jocelyn Solly Resource Centre / Delamere Resource Centre
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