Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Interventions Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: Clinical Psychologist/Senior Mental Health Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave Cover)
Hours: Full time, Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 349-MCH-6851723
Site: Pendleton Gateway, Town: Salford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join Salford CAMHS, working as the Neurodevelopmental & Behavioural Interventions Lead.
If you are a Clinical Psychologist or an experienced Mental Health Practitioner looking to share your knowledge and skills working with children and families, have excellent mental assessment and formulation skills, and can work therapeutically, we would love to hear from you.
A skilled practitioner with mental health knowledge who can work in a busy team, manage risk, and is passionate about offering interventions for children and families will thrive in this role.
Working with children and families presenting with a range of mental health challenges, you will have the opportunity to develop core clinical skills in assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation, and supervision of others. We offer a robust supervision and development structure in terms of psychological therapies training within the Trust and across Greater Manchester to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.
Salford CAMHS delivers services in line with the Thrive framework and sees service user feedback and participation as key components of service delivery and development.
MFT CAMHS was rated Outstanding by the CQC.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the development, systematic provision, coordination, and evaluation of a high-quality specialist evidence-based assessment and intervention to young people referred to the team. Responsibilities may include:
* Providing a high-quality, evidence-based specialist service to children and young people presenting with neurodevelopmental difficulties and complex behavioural needs.
* Taking continuing responsibility for the management of an identified, highly complex clinical caseload.
* Providing clinical supervision around neurodevelopmental conditions and complex behavioural interventions within the team.
* Contributing to the teaching, training, and consultation on issues related to neurodevelopmental conditions and complex behavioural interventions to other professionals who work with young people.
* Assessment and intervention with children, teenagers, young adults, and families.
* Working with schools, colleges, and other community-based professionals working with children, teenagers, and young adults.
* Consultation, support, and provision of advice.
* Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research.
* Staff training.
* Liaison and effective teamwork with staff from wider health, community, and education as appropriate.
* Supporting the development of an evidence base for relevant conditions and outcomes affecting patients treated with our services.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Person specification
Experience and knowledge
* Qualifications
* Previous Experience in CAMHS
* Enhanced skills in assessment and intervention with children and young people with intellectual disabilities/Autism and co-morbid mental health difficulties
* Specialist knowledge of Intellectual disability and Autism
* Experience in delivering training
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.
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