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Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Interventions Lead
Band 8a
Main area: Clinical Psychologist/Senior Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave Cover)
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Job ref: 349-MCH-7090406C
Site: Pendleton Gateway, Town: Salford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/2025 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 experienced Mental Health Practitioner who is 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.
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:
* To provide a high-quality, evidence-based specialist service to children and young people presenting with neurodevelopmental difficulties and complex behavioural needs.
* To take continuing responsibility for the management of an identified, highly complex clinical caseload.
* To provide clinical supervision around neurodevelopmental conditions and complex behavioural interventions within the team.
* To contribute 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.
* Work 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 will be required with staff from wider health, community, and education as appropriate.
* Support 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.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness, and 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 and 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.
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. So that you are even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you will 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 will 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 at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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