CAMHS Senior MHP (Psychological Therapist - CBT)

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Buckley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust's CAMHS Care Hub is seeking a senior clinical clinician to deliver specialist CBT for children and young people up to 18, conduct thorough assessments, formulate treatment plans, and manage risk within a multidisciplinary team. You will supervise junior staff and contribute to training and service development.

The role emphasises outcome monitoring, safeguarding, and collaboration with partner agencies, with opportunities for professional development, audits,

Qualifications

• Must hold appropriate professional registration to work in the UK.
• Carry out comprehensive mental health and psychological assessments for children and families.
• Deliver specialist CBT and other evidence-based interventions.
• Develop, implement, and review psychological formulations and treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental health and psychological assessments for children, young people, and their families.
• Deliver specialist evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• Develop, implement, and review psychological formulations and treatment plans.
• Manage a defined caseload from assessment through to treatment, review, and discharge; undertake risk assessments and develop risk management plans.
• Deliver interventions to individuals, families, carers and groups; provide consultation and support to professionals within CAMHS and partner agencies.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care and improve outcomes.
• Contribute to clinical decision-making, referrals, care pathways, and treatment approaches.
• Monitor and evaluate clinical outcomes using routine measures and evidence-based practice.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and support to junior staff, trainees, and students; assist with training.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement projects, audits, and evaluations.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant records and documentation.
• Promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people at all times.

Skills

CBT

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Job description

This is a senior clinical role within CAMHS, providing specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based psychological interventions to children, young people (up to age 18), and their families. The post holder works as part of a multidisciplinary team and has significant responsibility for clinical assessment, treatment planning, risk management, supervision, and service development

• Conduct comprehensive mental health and psychological assessments for children, young people, and their families.
• Deliver specialist evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• Develop, implement, and review psychological formulations and treatment plans.
• Manage a defined caseload from assessment through to treatment, review, and discharge.Undertake risk assessments and develop appropriate risk management plans.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions to individuals, families, carers, and groups.Provide consultation, advice, and support to professionals within CAMHS and partner agencies.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care and improve outcomes.
• Contribute to clinical decision‑making regarding referrals, care pathways, and treatment approaches.
• Monitor and evaluate clinical outcomes using routine outcome measures and evidence‑based practice.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and support to junior staff, trainees, and students.Support the development and delivery of training for colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement projects, audits, and evaluations.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant clinical records and documentation.
• Promote safeguarding, child protection, and the welfare of children and young people at all times.
• Act as a senior clinical resource within the team, supporting service delivery and best practice.

The CAMHS Care Hub within Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has an active and innovative staff development strategy. Working for CAMHS within the trust means that you will access to in house training, such as shadowing staff across different care pathways, accessing training around different evidence based psychological approaches and having opportunities to further your own training needs through a robust CPD policy. Support with accessing trust wide training for managers, including accessing complaints training, interviewing and recruiting staff training and clinical supervision training. We have a robust supervision policy which ensures that clinical and managerial supervision are delivered by different people for each clinician and we also provide specialist clinical supervision where necessary in order for people to maintain or work towards accreditation in therapeutic modalities where their role requires it. We are committed to ensuring the psychological wellbeing of our staff as well as our patients and as such have a staff wellbeing strategy in place across the CAMHS Care hub.