Clinical Psychologist/ Senior CAMHS Practitioner inSalford inSalford PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

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.
Salford CAMHS for Cared For Children (STARLAC) is a long-established specialist multi-agency and multidisciplinary service, providing support for Looked After Children and Young People supported by Salford City Council Children's Services. There is extensive liaison, consultation and work with foster carers and professionals from Children’s Services and all associated networks. This is an experienced trauma-informed team and consequently there are plenty of opportunities for Continuing Professional Development and learning as well as joint working opportunities. The post holder will work 0.5 WTE with STARLAC, offering assessment and intervention, specialist consultation and staff training as part of this team.

Within the other 0.5WTE of the post, the post holder will sit within Salford locality CAMHS, within a Duty and Assessment team with a designated role to support Greater Manchester (GM) Looked After Children placed within the Salford locality, providing them with a targeted case management and therapeutic offer as required, in addition to contributing to duty assessments within this team.

The post holder will offer assessment and intervention, specialist consultation and staff training. They will provide a range of high-quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence based interventions. 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr James Hyman Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:
Salford CAMHS for Cared For Children (STARLAC) is a long-established specialist multi-agency and multidisciplinary service, providing support for Looked After Children and Young People supported by Salford City Council Children's Services. There is extensive liaison, consultation and work with foster carers and professionals from Children’s Services and all associated networks. This is an experienced trauma-informed team and consequently there are plenty of opportunities for Continuing Professional Development and learning as well as joint working opportunities. The post holder will work 0.5 WTE with STARLAC, offering assessment and intervention, specialist consultation and staff training as part of this team.

Within the other 0.5WTE of the post, the post holder will sit within Salford locality CAMHS, within a Duty and Assessment team with a designated role to support Greater Manchester (GM) Looked After Children placed within the Salford locality, providing them with a targeted case management and therapeutic offer as required, in addition to contributing to duty assessments within this team.

The post holder will offer assessment and intervention, specialist consultation and staff training. They will provide a range of high-quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence based interventions. 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr James Hyman Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:


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