Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 349-MCH-6134826*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Manchester CAMHS - The Bridge
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Snr Mental Health Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist CAMHS (Team Lead)
Band 7
Job overview
The Clinical Support Unit for CAMHS within Manchester Foundation Trust was awarded an "Outstanding" rating by the Care Quality Commission both in 2016 and 2019. This is an exciting time to join the trust to be part of the Greater Manchester footprint committed to dynamic and responsive engagement with our community. North CAMHS is constantly recognised within RMCH CAMHS as a supportive and friendly team.
This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced individual to develop their managerial skills at a senior level to support the Senior Leadership Team in the management of a core CAMHS team and promote and improve the mental health and well-being of Children, Young People and those who care for them. North Manchester CAMHS work with Children, Young People and Families aged up to 18 years and who present with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties. We are seeking to appoint a committed professional to join our experienced and highly motivated core team, based at The Bridge.
The team are supported by a vastly experienced multi-disciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing and AHPs in a warm friendly environment where staff wellbeing is as equally valued as the high standard of patient care that we deliver.
We believe in the development of our staff and offer regular clinical and managerial supervision alongside annual appraisal to identify opportunities to take you forward in your career and enhance the care we provide.
Main duties of the job
You must 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, including safeguarding and self-harm.
You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation and interventions. You will receive support from the Pathway Lead, Service Manager, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Consultant CAMHS Psychiatrists.
This post is a split post with a 50:50 commitment to service management and face to face clinical practice. The majority of your working time is to be targeted towards initial assessments of mental health disorders and duty based mental health risk assessments. You will then formulate these cases and decide on the next steps in the case. This could be, for example to move them through to longer term treatment. There is scope in this role to hold a small portion of the job plan to provide treatment via Evidence Based practice and providing effective clinical supervision.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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’ll 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 [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Must be registered with a professional body
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Professional Qualification (eg RMN/RSCN/RNLD, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Clinical Psychology)
- Relevant post graduate qualification or training in area relevant to service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in Psychological Therapies to Diploma or Masters level e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT
- Mentorship course ENB998 or equivalent
- Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties, including experience of delivering specialist skills in at least one therapeutic modality
- Extensive experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
- Experience of developing and providing evidenced based assessments, formulations, and care plans
- Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals
- Experience of staff management and evidence of managerial skills and knowledge
- Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
- Evidence of successful partnership working with other professional groups
- Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Experience of providing interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Experience of working with wider stakeholder groups
- Evidence of providing clinical supervision and training
- Evidence of project management experience
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation in relation to young people and mental health
- Highly developed knowledge of evidence-based practice across a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
- Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
- Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
- Ability to manage and organise own time and diary, and work flexibly and creatively in a clinical context
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere
- Evidence of leadership ability, able to influence, involve and develop individuals and teams
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Able to multitask and mentally adapt to different, unpredictable situations
- Able to foster partnerships and working relationships with other professional networks
- The ability to follow policy and make proposals for change
- The ability to work independently with the support of clinical and management supervision
- Able to demonstrate and understanding, acceptance of and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities, treating every person with respect
- The ability to maintain clinical records both written and electronic and be IT literate
Desirable criteria
- IT competent
- Knowledge and understanding of the research process
- Experience in audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Peter Darley
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 203 3250
- Additional information
Clare Jones
Lead for Clinical Psychology
0161 203 3255
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