Passionate about helping children & young people to improve their mental health?
Are you a registered Health Care Professional eg Occupational Therapist, Paediatric or Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Clinical Psychologist?
Would you like to be part of a forward thinking, supportive and developing service? Manchester Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with Children, Young People & Families aged up to 18 yrs with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.
We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner or psychologist who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team.
You must have significant experience of working with children, young people and families with complex mental health needs, have a working knowledge of CAMHS and or adult mental health and have an understanding of assessing complex mental health needs and levels of risk.
You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs, including mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family & social assessment, consultation and interventions.
You must be confident and experienced in communication due to the high level of liaison needed with other services. This is a clinical post and the expectation is the majority of time will be spent in face to face clinical practice.
This vacancy is for a post with South Manchester CAMHS, The Carol Kendrick Centre.
The post holder will work in the South Manchester District for the core team service and will see general referrals to the Department across the age range, with a broad range of presenting difficulties as appropriate. The post will involve provision of formulation driven and evidence-based interventions with children, young people and their families. The post holder duties will also include contributing to the South Manchester CAMHS on-call rota, multi-agency liaison, consultation and training of other professionals as appropriate.
The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children’s service. The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.
This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time spent in actual practice.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & 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.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
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.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Apr 2025
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