Job overview

We are looking for a creative and motivated professional with experience of supporting young people with their mental health needs to join our team as a youth justice link worker. The post holder will work within Trafford CAMHS as a senior clinician. You will need to be a registered professional. This could be from a range of backgrounds including clinical psychology, psychotherapy, social work, nursing or occupational therapy. You will understand young people's mental health and have experience working with risk and trauma informed practice.  One working day will be spent based within Trafford Youth Justice team, part of the local authority children and young people's services.  The successful candidate is  required to manage a caseload and provide 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, providing consultation to colleagues within Youth Justice and to wider networks such as social care and, Greater Manchester Police and courts.  The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge to deliver care in a multi-agency team setting and receive clinical supervision and management supervision from local CAMHS service, and peer supervision with the CAMHS and youth justice teams.  Experience of assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions will be advantageous.  

Main duties of the job

Clinical Duties:

1. To work autonomously undertaking assessment of referrals from Trafford YJ Service.  Gathering appropriate information from the child, family and relevant agencies.
2. 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.
3. To develop a formulation and plan for intervention, negotiating this with the patient and parents, communicating to the referrer and relevant professionals.
4. To contribute to the duty function of the service, including assessment and management of risk. 
5. To implement and manage intervention utilising the skills and expertise of the multi disciplinary team, and other agencies.
6. To manage your own case load, effectively managing your own capacity.
7. To actively participate in clinical supervision.
8. To attend and contribute to multi disciplinary team and multi agency meetings.
9. To provide consultation to other professionals
10. To work from a multi agency perspective in liaison with other professionals
11. To attend and contribute to professional meetings within YJ and Core CAMHS as required
12. To keep accurate, timely and thorough records of care provided to all patients, including the compilation of appropriate statistics.
13. To provide written reports as required and within timescale
14. 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.

Working for our organisation

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.