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Senior Mental Health Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Mental Health Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: 12 months (37.5 hours per week, fixed term for one year)
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
Job ref: 349-MCH-6827287*
Site: Salford CAMHS
Town: Salford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join Salford CAMHS, working with complex cases in Core CAMHS. If you are a Clinical Psychologist or 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 intervention for children and families will thrive in this role. You will have the opportunity to develop core clinical skills in assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation, and supervision of others.
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:
* Assessment and intervention with children, teenagers, young adults, and families
* Work with schools, colleges, and other community-based professionals
* Consultation, support, and provision of advice
* Utilising research skills for audit, policy, and service development
* Staff training
* Liaison and effective teamwork with staff from wider health, community, and education
* Support the development of an evidence base for relevant conditions and outcomes
We are keen to promote innovative practice, as well as traditional individual psychological assessment and intervention.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn. 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 & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research through our Electronic Patient Record system.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you will need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration
* You must be registered/accredited with a professional body (e.g., NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BACP).
Qualifications
* You must have a recognised qualification.
* Additional qualifications relating to the assessment of autism (e.g., ADI, ADOS training).
* Additional qualifications relating to LD or autism.
* Additional postgraduate training in psychological therapies and interventions.
Experience
* Significant experience of working with children and young people with autism and social communication difficulties.
* Relevant experience and training in multi-disciplinary assessments of autism in children and adolescents.
* Proven experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working with hard-to-reach diverse community groups.
* Experience of assessing and managing risk, including safeguarding.
* Experience of developing and providing evidence-based assessments and care plans.
* Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies.
* Experience of mentoring and supervision of others.
* Experience of providing a variety of interventions for children and young people with mental health problems.
* Community mental health experience across a variety of settings.
Knowledge
* Up-to-date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation.
* Advanced knowledge and skills in delivering evidence-based practice.
* The ability to assess, formulate, and manage care appropriately.
* Ability to select, use, and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures effectively.
* Ability to integrate psychological theories with clinical practice.
* Ability to plan, implement, and evaluate appropriate therapeutic interventions.
* Highly developed communication skills.
* Ability to function as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Ability to provide feedback and constructive guidance to junior members of the team.
* Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner.
* Ability to manage and organise own time and diary.
* Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
Personal Attributes
* A commitment to undertake further relevant training.
* Punctual and flexible across hours of work.
* A commitment to the inclusion of young people’s views in service delivery.
* Willingness to contribute to team functioning and performance.
Work Related Circumstance
* Ability to travel across the MFT footprint.
* Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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