Clinical PsychologistinManchesterinManchesterPUBLISHED SAT 5 APR 2025

This post provides an exciting opportunity to join a large and established team in the RMCH Paediatric Psychosocial Service and with the support of senior colleagues, continue the development of a service into a new clinical area within the St Mary’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Paediatric Psychosocial Services are well regarded in the Trust and close relationships exist with our colleagues in paediatric, neonatal (and indeed adult) medical specialties. The service also sits within a wider CAMHS Division within the acute Trust and so is well supported and connected with other children’s mental health services across Manchester, Salford and Trafford. We are keen to promote innovative practice, as well as specialist psychological assessment and intervention. Across the service we work with hospital inpatients and outpatients, with face-to-face as well as online/virtual modalities. We offer patient groups, consultation groups and psychosocial forums with other medical specialties, we actively contribute to the wider Trust Schwartz Round programme and support a range of therapeutic intervention modalities, including neuropsychology, family therapy, ACT, CFT, Narrative, CBT, psychotherapeutic approaches and parent-infant work.

We are a committed research service with our team contributing to a wide range of research projects and host some of our own too. Continuing professional development and further training is supported and encouraged at this grade in association with the appraisal process.

The post is open to applicants at band 7 or 8a (please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information).

Whilst it is a 12 month fixed term post, permanent positions are regularly available within our wider service, for candidates who find that they wish to pursue a career in this field.

To Be Considered For This Role, You'll Need

• An accredited post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology
• Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Post-qualification experience of working within the fields of neonatal, Paediatric, adolescent or adult health psychology
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Gaskell Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:

Catherine Taylor

Principal Clinical