Employer Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type NHS Site Adult Community Mental Health Team Town Macclesfield
Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 11/11/2025 23:59
Interview date 21/11/2025
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and skilled mental health professional to join our Community Mental Health Team and make a real difference in the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
In this pivotal role, you'll be at the heart of our service, leading on the duty function – completing new assessments, responding to urgent referrals and supporting individuals already open to the team. Every day will bring new challenges and opportunities to use your clinical expertise, creativity and problem solving skills to deliver outstanding care.
You will work closely with a supportive and experienced multi‑disciplinary team who share your commitment to recovery-focused and person-centred care. This is an opportunity to contribute to a service that values collaboration, innovation and compassion where professional skills truly make a difference.
If you’re qualified and have experience working with people with complex mental health presentations, we'd love to hear from you.
Shortlisting date 12th November 2025
Main duties of the job
The postholder will primarily undertake the duty function, which includes completing new assessments and responding to the immediate needs of individuals already open to the Community Mental Health Team.
The successful candidate must be professionally qualified (e.g. Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist) and have demonstrable experience of working with people presenting with complex mental health needs. They will be expected to work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary team, exercising sound clinical judgement and maintain a person-centred, recovery-focused approach to care.
Key responsibilities
* Triaging and assessing referrals.
* Collaboratively identifying and managing risk.
* Providing timely and appropriate support/interventions to service users experiencing crisis.
* Developing positive working relationships with service users, carers, general practitioners, third sector partners and members of the multi‑disciplinary team.
* Ensuring that clear channels of communication are established and maintained with clients, carers, GPs, Social Services and other partners.
* Promote and identify areas requiring development within the CMHT in the Cheshire East area and to take a lead role in the development of services in conjunction with the Team Operations Manager, Head of Clinical Services and other professionals.
Working for our organisation
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with the appropriate professional body
* Professional knowledge acquired through a relevant degree plus relevant experience for working with complex cases
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Relevant mentorship qualification as required by governing body
Experience
* A minimum of 2 years post registration 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
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 which promote the service users journey along the recovery pathway.
* In‑depth knowledge of delivering psychosocial interventions (PSI)
* Knowledge of physical health needs
* Professional knowledge acquired through a relevant degree plus relevant experience for working in the community
* Highly developed accurate physical skills and be able 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Core EEO statements: If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Additional information
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
Clinical Leads: Jen Green (jennifer.green12@nhs.net) / Sue Worthington (susan.worthington2@nhs.net). Telephone 01625 505634.
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