Senior Mental Health Practitioner/ Clinical PsychologistinSalfordinSalfordPUBLISHED THU 16 JAN 2025

This in an exciting opportunity to join Salford CAMHS, working with complex Cases in Core CAMHS.

If you are Clinical Psychologist or experienced Mental Health Practitioner who is looking to share and your knowledge and skills working with children and families, have excellent mental assessment and formulation skills and can work therapeutically we would love to hear from you.

A skilled practitioner with mental health knowledge who can work in a busy team, manage risk and is passionate about offering intervention for children and families will thrive in this role.

Working with children and families presenting with a range of mental health challenges, you will have opportunity to develop core clinical skills in assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation and supervision of others. We offer a robust supervision and development structure in terms of psychological therapies training within the Trust and across Greater Manchester to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.

Salford CAMHS delivers services in line with the Thrive framework and sees service user feedback and participation as key components of service delivery and development.

MFT CAMHS was rated Outstanding by the CQC

Responsibilities

To ensure the development, systematic provision, coordination and evaluation of a high-quality specialist evidence based assessment and intervention to young people referred to the team. Responsibilities may include:

• Assessment and intervention with children, teenagers, young adults, and families
• Work with schools, colleges and other community-based professionals working with children, teenagers, and young adults.
• Consultation, support, and provision of advice
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
• Staff training
• Liaison and effective teamwork will be required with staff from wider health, community, and education as appropriate
• Support the development of an evidence base for relevant conditions and outcomes affecting patients treated with our services.
  
  

We are keen to promote innovative practice, as well as traditional individual psychological assessment and intervention.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust 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 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: Tai Jamil Job title: Service Manager Email address: Telephone number:

Christian Loney - Service Manager

Kelly Dillon - Duty and Assessment Lead