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Job overview

Salford CAMHS has a strong and on going commitment to providing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy for Children, Young people and Families.  We are seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic child and adolescent psychotherapist to join our committed and creative MDT made up of a number of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, family and systemic therapists, and mental health practitioners. 

As well as being a core team member, you will establish strong connections with an enthusiastic group of psychotherapists across CAMHS directorate for peer support. 

You will receive regular supervision from a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist alongside training opportunities to continue your development.   Your unique and specialist skills will be highly valued and utilised for assessments and interventions, as well as supporting training and psychological practice within the service.  

The successful applicant will be confident and skilled to work independently and in collaboration with other professionals, providing psychoanalytically informed consultation and supervision.   

We encourage interest for candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

This is a part time post. 

Main duties of the job

As a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will be a registered member of the ACP.  You will:

• Work with children, young people and their families facing a range of mental health difficulties and challenges.
• Undertake expert and holistic assessments, including risk assessments, and deliver outcome based long, medium and short-term psychotherapy to children and their families 
• Provide reflective supervision space for other psychotherapists and members of the MDT as appropriate.
• Offer specialist consultation to colleagues in the MDT, across the CAMHS footprint and to other professionals involved in the child’s care.  A comprehensive understanding of safeguarding is essential.
• Contribute to the development of trauma informed pathways within CAMHS and across the locality as required.
• As a senior member of the service, you will support the team in the delivery of therapeutic care coordination and evidence-based outcomes, ensuring that team processes and spaces for reflection are robust and well used. 

You must therefore have good interpersonal skills and qualities to build good relationships and engage families with complex lives. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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.