Principal Clinical PsychologistinSalfordinSalfordPUBLISHED FRI 21 MAR 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, highly specialist clinical psychologist to lead a small team within CAMHS, co-ordinate a community based mental health offer for children with significant learning disabilities and their families and support autistic children and young people with more complex mental health needs. The postholder will have significant clinical experience in this area and will have skills in consultation, training and supervision. Working together with the Strategic Lead for LDA in CAMHS, the postholder will need to work with partners in Community Health, Education and Social Care to develop the offer of support to children and young people with significant learning needs in Salford. They will have links with the local Intensive Support Team and be expected to contribute to support planning around behaviours of distress and concern. Embedded within their local CAMHS team, the postholder will also work closely with colleagues in child psychiatry.

To develop an innovative, highly specialist and targeted offer to children with disabilities and their families in Salford within the context of a comprehensive and integrated CAMHS. To contribute to strategic developments and support policy change in Salford in this area. To represent CAMHS in multiagency groups across the city relating to children with disabilities. To offer consultation and training to partner agencies. To provide supervision and line management to other clinicians within the targeted team. To deliver high quality assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities. To help co-ordinate group offers in Salford, e.g. Riding the Rapids.

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: Jo Bromley Job title: Strategic Lead LDA MFT CAMHS Email address: Telephone number:

Paul Wallis, Director of Psychological Services, MFT CAMHS