Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/ Clinical Psychologist in Manchester inManchester PUBLISHED TUE 10 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

Are you a registered Health Care Professional eg Occupational Therapist, Paediatric or Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Clinical Psychologist?

Would you like to be part of a forward thinking, supportive and developing service? Trafford Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with Children, Young People & Families aged up to 18 yrs with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.

We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner or clinical psychologist who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team across both Core CAMHS and CAMHS LAC.

You must have significant experience of working with children, young people and families with complex mental health needs, have a working knowledge of CAMHS and or adult mental health and have an understanding of assessing complex mental health needs and levels of risk.

You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs, including mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family & social assessment, consultation and interventions.

You must be confident and experienced in communication due to the high level of liaison needed with other services. This is a clinical post and the expectation is the majority of time will be spent in face to face clinical practice.

This vacancy is split post between Trafford CAMHS for Children in Care and Trafford Core CAMHS.

The post holder will work in the Trafford District for the Children in Care and core team service and will see general referrals to the Department across the age range, with a broad range of presenting difficulties as appropriate. The post will involve provision of formulation driven and evidence-based interventions with children, young people and their families/carers. The post holder duties will also include contributing to the Trafford CAMHS duty service, multi-agency liaison, consultation and training of other professionals as appropriate.

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. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children's service. The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time spent in actual practice.

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To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll 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 youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

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