Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist/Specialist CAMHS Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-MCH-6207810*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Manchester Core CAMHS - The Bridge
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Psychologist/SMHP - Partnership Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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 qualified practitioner to develop the partnership pathway within the service and support the Senior Leadership Team in the management of core CAMHS. You will 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 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.
The majority of your working time is to be targeted towards the clinical management of the partnership pathway, delivery of therapeutic interventions and supporting core partnership/complex case management. You will provide supervision to the partnership team and support the service manager in undertaking appraisals and monitoring annual leave and sickness within this team. This is an exciting opportunity to further your therapeutic career and influence the patients and their carers within North Manchester.
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
- You must be registered/accredited with a professional body. e.g. NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BABCP
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- You must have a recognised qualification. (Clinical Psychologist / Registered Nurse (RMN/RSCN) / Social Worger / OT / Other relevant accreditable qualification)
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in Psychological Therapies e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT / DBT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a qualified practitioner within a CAMHS service or similar, including work with a wide variety of client groups and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings. Some of this experience will need to include working with children cared for by the local authority and supporting the systems around them.
- Experience of supporting residential care staff teams through consultation and reflection.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Teaching, training and clinical supervision
- Quality and service improvement and evaluation
- Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and/or private sector agencies
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation particularly with regard to the needs of cared for children
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
- The ability to assess, formulate and manage care appropriately, ensuring discharge is timely
- The ability to use assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family
- To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies e.g. social workers, maintaining positive working relationships
- The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own practice
- To have the ability to manage own caseload
- Ability to manage and organise own time and diary
- The ability to follow policy and make proposals for change
- The ability to work independently with the support of clinical and management supervision
- The ability to maintain clinical records both written and electronic
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- A commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
- Emotional stamina and ability to respond constructively in highly stressful situations where individuals hold very different perspectives and there is a high level of distress, ambiguity and conflict
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills and to articulate the value added by psychological approaches to multi-disciplinary work
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills and to articulate the value added by psychological approaches to multi-disciplinary work
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the MFT footprint
- Ability to work flexible hours outside core hours, as required by the job
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
- Clare Jones
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 203 3250
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