Senior CAMHS Practitioner Youth Justice Link Worker

NHS; Sale; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Senior CAMHS Practitioner Youth Justice Link Worker. This role involves conducting assessments and providing mental health interventions to young people. Ideal candidates will have a Doctoral degree in psychology or a related field and relevant experience in mental health. Salary is competitive, ranging from £47,810 to £54,710 per annum.

Qualifications

• Recognised qualifications required in Mental Health.
• Evidence of experience in mental health assessments and interventions.
• Registered with a professional body.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and manage a complex caseload autonomously.
• Provide intervention for young people with mental health needs.
• Participate in clinical supervision and multidisciplinary meetings.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Risk management

Team collaboration

Education

Doctoral degree in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Registered Nursing RMN/RSCN/RNMH/Social Work

Job description

Overview

Senior CAMHS Practitioner Youth Justice Link Worker

The closing date is 30 September 2025

Main duties of the job

Clinical Duties:

• To work autonomously undertaking assessment of referrals from Trafford YJ Service. Gathering appropriate information from the child, family and relevant agencies.
• To participate as a senior clinician within the core CAMHS team, offering assessment and intervention to young people with moderate to severe mental health need.
• To develop a formulation and plan for intervention, negotiating this with the patient and parents, communicating to the referrer and relevant professionals.
• To contribute to the duty function of the service, including assessment and management of risk.
• To implement and manage intervention utilising the skills and expertise of the multi disciplinary team, and other agencies.
• To manage your own case load, effectively managing your own capacity.
• To actively participate in clinical supervision.
• To attend and contribute to multi disciplinary team and multi agency meetings.
• To provide consultation to other professionals
• To work from a multi agency perspective in liaison with other professionals
• To attend and contribute to professional meetings within YJ and Core CAMHS as required
• To keep accurate, timely and thorough records of care provided to all patients, including the compilation of appropriate statistics.
• To provide written reports as required and within timescale
• To be responsible for the management of agreed tasks in relation to specific services/resources to ensure the efficient and safe running of that aspect of the service.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need 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 youll 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 [e-mail].

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications and Registration

• You must have a recognised qualification. Recognised qualifications are: Doctoral degree in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS; Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH; Social Work (CQSW/DipSW); Occupational Therapy; BACP approved accredited qualification
• You must be registered/accredited with a professional body. e.g. NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
• Additional post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions

Experience

• Relevant experience and training in mental health assessments and interventions
• Proven experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties, including autonomous management of a complex caseload which frequently deals with distressing and emotional circumstances.
• Experience of hard to reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding
• Experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding.
• Experience of developing and providing evidenced based assessments, formulations, and care plans and effective use of ROMS
• Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals, including managing difficult conversations and differences of opinion
• Experience of mentoring and supervision of others, including supporting the mental health and wellbeing of junior staff and trainees.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures
• Experience of providing a variety of interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
• Community mental health experience across a variety of settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year, per annum, pro rata