This is a fixed term 12 month post within the well established Manchester Cared for Children’s CAMHS team which provides specialist, targeted, city wide services to children and young people (0 – 18 years) who are Cared for by Manchester Local Authority. The post holder will offer comprehensive mental health assessment and intervention, specialist consultation and staff training as part of their role and there is extensive liaison, consultation and multiagency working with foster carers and professionals from Children’s Services and all associated networks. There are plenty of opportunities for CPD and learning as well as joint working opportunities.
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 that the majority of time is spent in clinical practice.
- To provide assessments, formulation and specialist intervention to promote the mental and emotional health of cared for children and young people
To provide psychological expertise, advice and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by other professionals working with the client group from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to service provision.
To provide an immediate response and interventions where required to children and young people and be confident to safety plan, risk assess and understand when children and young people need a crisis response and how to manage this appropriately.
To deliver a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions, including risk management, utilising the skills and expertise of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies where appropriate.
To contribute to the group and training offer delivered by the service
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MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Liz Bailey Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0161 701 6880
