Employer Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Penn Hospital
Town Wolverhampton
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 AfC Band 7 2025 pay point according to experience.
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/04/2025 23:59
CEN Pathway Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
* Adult and older adult mental health services
* Specialist learning disability services
* Mental health services for children and young people
* Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Job overview
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. They 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 but also be fully integrated into the local CMHTs. We are looking to recruit a new Band 7 CEN Clinical Lead to cover the Wolverhampton locality. 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.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for targeting and identifying highly complex and risky service users. You will be responsible for 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Practice and Clinical Leadership - You will be responsible for targeting high frequency users who have CENs, re-assessing their needs from a Bio-Psycho-Social perspective, working alongside psychologists in formulating their difficulties and developing bespoke and complex risk and safety plans. You will engage service users in 'assertive stabilisation' initially which will often mean being appropriately responsive to crisis situations and tightly liaising with the wider CMHT to ensure a consistent agreed response. You will also be supporting CEN B6 Practitioners, CMHT staff and CEN Recovery Workers engage with service users according to the care plan thus ensuring progress and goals are achieved.
Team Working - You will be part of a Trust wide 'virtual' CEN Team but also be integrated into the two CMHTs in your local area. You will attend MDTs, professionals meetings and case conferences as required, including in-reach to hospital. You will need good communication and people skills and be able to work creatively on improving interface issues whilst managing the pressures this can bring.
Training and Supervision - As part of your job plan you will be required to offer supervision to staff, reflective practice and Trust wide training to support the upskilling of staff in CEN specific ways of working, particularly in addressing stigma.
Leadership & Service Development - You will be integral to the continued development of this new Pathway. This will involve being attuned to the difficulties on the ground, dealing with any complaints, developing and reporting evaluation results, reporting back and being fully involved in growth of the Pathway, in terms of its clinical and strategic focus.
Name Dr Marie Payne Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist CEN Pathway Lead Email address marie.payne2@nhs.net Telephone number 07500 122425
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Registration
* AHP, Social work or nursing training at degree level, plus appropriate registration, PIN with Nursing Midwifery Council, HCPC registration
* Training in CEN specific approaches or therapies, Master qualifications in nursing approaches, Non medical prescribing etc
Experience and Knowledge
* Years of experience, experience of working with risk in the community, experience of working with personality disorder
* Experience of working using PD specific interventions, e.g SCM or DBT, or working in PD specific services or having had a previous leadership role
Skills, Personal Attributes and Trust Values
* Attitudes to working with CENs, good understanding and ability to embody Trust values, suitable character traits appropriate for leadership role and working with Teams and supporting colleagues and carers
* Extra qualifications in coaching, supervision, previous training role. Specific role with working with carers. Lived experience of mental health.
** Please Note that Internal at Risk Employees will be given preference for this position**
We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward for this vacancy at any time should we receive an overwhelming response of applications. We therefore encourage applicants to apply early if you wish to be considered for this post.
If you do not hear from the recruitment 4 weeks within the advertised closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful at the shortlisting stage. Please ensure that you check your emails on a regular basis for any recruitment updates regarding this vacancy.
The salary range quoted is as per NHS Agenda for Change pay structures. This is based on the number of years’ working directly within the NHS at the advertised pay band. Experience gained with other NHS Trusts will apply, but candidates without prior experience working direct for the NHS would normally be appointed at the lowest point unless they can demonstrate the equivalent experience and then be eligible for incremental increases in future years.
Successful applicants for clinical posts up to and including Band 4 are expected to hold the national Care Certificate qualification and will be supported to attain this once in post.
The Trust is committed to equal opportunities, providing opportunities for flexible working and is a non-smoking organisation.
As a Trust we are passionate about Anti-Racism, Disability Inclusion, and LGBTQ+ Equality, and are committed to diversifying our staff team in all areas and at all levels of seniority to better reflect the diverse communities we serve. Therefore, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from people who belong to a minority or marginalised community, including from Black and Asian, Disabled (including hidden disabilities such as Neurodiversity, Mental Health, etc), or Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans or Queer (LGBTQ+) people.
Furthermore, Disabled applicants have the option of requesting that their application is considered under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS). Please indicate your intention to apply under the GIS in the relevant section of your application. Regardless of whether you participate in the scheme or have shared a disability, you will be provided the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments to the interview process at each stage of the recruitment process.
Due to the nature of the work some posts may be subject to a Standard Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, through the Disclosure and Barring Service as stipulated under part V of the Police Act 1997. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us; this will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances of your offences.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Marie Payne Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist CEN Pathway Lead Email address marie.payne2@nhs.net Telephone number 07500 122425
For further details / informal visits contact:
Kelly Plant - Community Transformation Operational Manager
kelly.plant1@nhs.net
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