Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-MCH-7132623-RL4
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Waterside House
- Town
- Sale, Trafford
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist/Mental Health Practitioner Early Years
Band 7
Job overview
Job overview
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological service for young children and their families under the CAMHS umbrella in Trafford. The community service offer includes group work, individual psychological assessment and intervention; and advice, consultation & training to support the psychological knowledge of the multi agency network around infants, young children and parents.
The service consists of a team with clinical psychology, child psychotherapy and health visiting backgrounds. We work as part of the current under 5s CAMHS provision in Trafford, within the integrated Infant mental health pathway and the Best Beginnings work across the borough. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who is able to join the team to work effectively and autonomously within this multi-agency context offering both clinical work, training and consultation.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
Are you a Clinical Psychologist or Mental Health Practitioner passionate about working with parents and their children up to the age of 5? Are you interested in working to raise the profile of the most important early relationship, in a forward looking service, alongside local colleagues and partners working with young children and parents? If you are enthusiastic about helping this important client group, at a time of national developments for parents and children, then this post will be an excellent opportunity for you.
You will have experience of working with young children and their families who present with a range of relationship and social / emotional development needs and risk. It will be necessary to have skills and experience in supporting children and their parents in the early years to develop good attachment relationships.
You will autonomously manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the infant, young child and parent’s needs; within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework. You must be confident and experienced in communication, supervision and consultation.
This post is a clinical post and includes supervision, training and offering consultation to other workers contributing and working with a multi-agency team.
For further information please contact Dr. Catherine Tighe - Clinical Lead of Trafford Infant Parent Service on 07779 556737
Working for our organisation
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.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- You must have a recognised qualification. Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS Nursing or midwifery qualification SW qualification Psychotherapy qualification
- You must be currently registered with the HCPC or NMC or SW or ACP/UKCP professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in supervision skills
- Additional post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions relevant to the perinatal period
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with children and young people within an early intervention/early years context
- Relevant experience and training in multi-disciplinary assessments in children and adolescents
- 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 working with hard-to-reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, 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 in teaching and training staff from other professional groups in psychological skills and concepts Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures
Desirable criteria
- 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.
- Experience of working in a parent infant mental health setting
- Experience/certification in an evidence-based intervention delivered in the perinatal period eg. Baby bonding, Baby IY, Circle of security
- Experience/certification in Video interaction guidance
- Experience of mentoring and supervision of others, including supporting the mental health and
- wellbeing of junior staff and trainees.
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
- Dr Catherine Tighe
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07779 556737
- Additional information
Trafford Infant Parent Service 0161 549 6456
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