Highly Specialist Psychotherapist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Pennine Care NHS FT
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 PA, pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Ashton, OL6 7SR
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	1 Oct 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

The Greater Manchester Resilience Hub is a unique, all age, psychology led, trauma informed, partnership focused portfolio of services, established after the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017.

The Critical Incident and Trauma Service (CITS) offers specialist trauma advice, consultation, assessments and interventions following major incidents and to GM health and care staff experiencing incidents, trauma and vicarious trauma at work. The offer is hosted by Pennine Care NHS FT is for systems, teams and individuals.

• Ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist trauma service.

• To work with people of all ages, including professionals, in GM impacted by major incidents and other traumatic events.

• Offer highly specialist trauma informed consultation, assessment and NICE approved therapeutic interventions for individuals and teams.

• Support service users to access appropriate treatment, including making referrals on their behalf to mental health services across the UK.

• Develop and take responsibility for a range of interventions including 1:1 and group interventions.

• Provide highly specialist advice and consultation to other professionals

involved in supporting people affected by incidents.

• Take a lead in supporting the development of the CITS service and the wider portfolio of the GM Resilience Hub in becoming a GM centre of excellence in the care of those experiencing psychological difficulties as a result of involvement in a major incident or other trauma; this includes deputising for the clinical lead.

• Take a lead in any incident and major incident responses.

• Take responsibility for the management of, supervision of and development of qualified and unqualified staff within the CITS service.

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.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

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

• Support the Clinical Team Leader to ensure there are safe and effective care pathways in place for those impacted by incidents.

• Lead on developing an understanding of universal and workplace

psychological support offers for health, social care and other professionals involved in incidents.

• Take responsibility for maintaining partnerships and effective interfaces with other professionals and agencies that work alongside mental health services in supporting those affected by incidents and trauma.

• Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and support the resolution of conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through

facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms.

• Undertake clinical reviews of screening information and other referrals

received in the CITS service.

• Provide assessment and formulation for specialist psychological intervention of complex/high risk service users open to the CITS service.

• To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or

management of client’s presenting issues based upon an appropriate

conceptual framework of the client’s problems.

• Take a lead on developing and reviewing formulation and care planning for services users open to the CITS service.

• Provide specialist advice, guidance or consultation to team members and

other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation and treatment

plans.

• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals and provide

advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment

and management of trauma symptoms.

• Utilise sound clinical knowledge and awareness of national guidance in

relation to trauma focussed interventions to deliver evidence-based therapy

to CITS service users.

• Develop and lead on consultation, formulation and interventions for systems,

managers and teams impacted by trauma in the workplace.

• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the advice,

consultation and formulation provided as a highly specialist

psychologist/psychotherapist within the CITS service.

• Lead on incident responses for teams and individuals, promoting best

practice and supporting wider systems.

• Plan, lead on and deliver group interventions for CTS service users, with a focus on psycho-social interventions for trauma.

• Support the Clinical Team Leader in the planning and delivery of training events for other professionals working with those affected by major incidents.

• To offer and contribute to specialist advice, support, education and training to all members of this team and wider services as required.

• Be the senior clinician on home visits to families impacted by major

incidents, as required.

• Maintain knowledge of the evidence base and improve and

positively develop clinical practice in relation to psychological

support for those impacted by incidents.

• Support the identification and sharing of best practice in relation to

psycho- social support following major incidents across GM,

nationally and internationally as appropriate.

• Support the Clinical Team Leader in the development and maintenance of effective systems to monitor individuals for whom treatment is expedited with local providers.

• Lead on major incident responses, including representing the CITS

service at a GM, regional and national level.

This advert closes on Thursday 15 Oct 2026

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