Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist to work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team. This crucial role involves managing complex mental health cases for children and families, requiring significant clinical experience and expertise in mental health assessments. Join a leading NHS Trust known for its commitment to integrated health and social care, and be part of a service that aims to support the mental health of young people across the region.

Qualifications

• Registered health care professional with significant experience in child mental health.
• Experience in managing complex cases and multiagency work.
• Expertise in evidence-based assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• To provide mental state assessments, risk assessments, and interventions.
• Manage a caseload of children and provide evidence-based care.
• Contribute to multi-agency discussions and training for professionals.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Risk assessment and management

Autonomous practice

Multi-agency liaison

Communication

Education

RMN/RSCN/RNMH / Clinical Psychology / social work / occupational therapy

Post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions

Job description

Go back Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 24 June 2025

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? Trafford 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 clinical psychologist who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team across both Core CAMHS and CAMHS LAC.

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 split post between Trafford CAMHS for Children in Care and Trafford Core CAMHS.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in the Trafford District for the Children in Care and 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/carers. The post holder duties will also include contributing to the Trafford CAMHS duty service, 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.

About us

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.

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 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 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

Registration

• You must be registered with a professional body.

Qualifications

• You must have a recognised qualification in:RMN/RSCN/RNMH / Clinical Psychology / social work / occupational therapy
• Additional post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions

Experience

• Experience in working with Looked After Children and multiagency working
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range
• Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals.
• Proven experience of working effectively with children and young people with mental health difficulties, including autonomous management of a complex caseload which frequently deals with distressing and emotional circumstances
• 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 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

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata)