General Practitioner with Special Interest in CAMHS (Mental Health)

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester, Sale; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in England is seeking a psychiatric professional to work with children and young people facing neurodevelopmental difficulties, including managing ADHD medication clinics. The position involves comprehensive assessment and psychiatric care in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. The role requires a medical degree and experience working with children in mental health settings. You will play an essential part in delivering high-quality care in a supportive environment that has received outstanding ratings from inspections.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing children with mental health difficulties.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with agencies.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
• Deliver ADHD medication clinics.
• Provide child psychiatric care and advice within CAMHS.

Skills

Child and adolescent psychiatric care

Assessment of neurodevelopmental difficulties

Management of ADHD medication

Education

Medical degree and relevant psychiatric training

Job description

A Vacancy at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

All our CAMHS teams have a wide mix of skills and experience in their multi-disciplinary teams and enthusiastic, supportive colleagues, highly skilled and cohesive environment.

The GP with Special Interest and Consultants across CAMHS meet regularly for academic, professional and social support with a well-respected training scheme for trainees placed across the services.

It goes without saying that you’ll be expected to take part in frontline work, with a focus around ADHD and Neurodevelopmental conditions.

Post holder(s) will operate from a choice of CAMHS Departments based in South and North Manchester’s community/outpatient’s centres.

This role will focus on and will involve providing face to face care to children and young people within a busy department, receiving over 2000 referrals per annum, but the post is supported by an experienced multi-disciplinary team from a CAMHS team that have an OUTSTANDING rating in two consecutive unannounced CQC inspections.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust in England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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.

Responsibilities

• Primarily the assessment and management of children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties, including delivering ADHD medication clinics
• Management of children and young people prescribed medication for the treatment of mental health difficulties
• With other CAMHS colleagues, provide child and adolescent psychiatric care and advice as required and in accordance with the service specification.
• To give child and adolescent psychiatric opinion and advice as appropriate within the CAMHS team.
• Case liaison with other agencies as appropriate.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Jan 2026