Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-MCH-7029948*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Manchester CAMHS, Carol Kendrick Centre
- Town
- Wythenshawe
- Salary
- £53,755 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our innovative CAMHS team. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Clinical Psychologist or someone looking to take their next step from an 8A to 8B development post If taken on as development role you would be supported to develop competencies to work fully into a principal clinical psychology role over/up to two year period. The expectation would be for the post holder to fully progress via a process of supported development and evaluation to reach the expected level of competency for an 8b psychologist. This would be supported by the 8c lead psychologist in the team.
Manchester Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services work with Children and Young People from 5 to 18 years with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties. You will have an integral role in developing and supporting the pathway into CAMHS. The postholder will offer supervision, consultation and training to members of the team.
The postholder will carry a caseload and play a role in developing and integrating intervention pathways.
We encourage service innovation and value user participation. We are committed to CPD, the personal and professional development of team members and positive well-being, ensuring clinicians are able to achieve the right work-life balance.
This vacancy is with South Manchester CAMHS at The Carol Kendrick Centre.
Main duties of the job
This post is open to experienced Clinical Psychologists and other eligible practitioners with the appropriate qualifications/experience. Significant experience of working in the delivery of psychological services in CAMHS and eligibility for HCPC Registration is essential.
As a senior highly specialist Clinical Psychologist/Equivalent Psychological Practitioner with substantial senior clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will work alongside other senior staff to provide leadership to support the systematic delivery of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology/psychological service to children, young people and families in South Manchester, in the context of a comprehensive and integrated CAMHS.
To support the leadership team in representing clinical psychology/psychological services and CAMHS in South Manchester in multiagency development groups relating to community and primary care services. To support the leadership team in non-clinical activity by proposing and implementing policy changes for South Manchester CAMHS.
Effective working relationships are essential at all levels and with multiple stakeholders, in South Manchester CAMHS (with core colleagues and those in specialist/targeted CAMHS), Children’s Services, Community Health, Education and other partner agencies.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust 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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration and qualifications
Essential criteria
- You must be registered/accredited with a professional body. e.g. HCPC,
- Diploma, masters, doctoral degree or equivalent accepted by the British Psychological Society as qualifying the person to work as a clinical psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Masters level qualification or equivalent (including evidence of working towards this level)
- Formal Teaching and Assessing Certificate/Qualification
- Clinical supervisor qualification/training/accreditation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range with a full range of presenting problems and across settings including community, outpatient and clinic settings
- Experience of maintaining effective working relationships and of clearly communicating service-related information to senior managers and key stakeholders
- Experience of offering a cognitive behavioural approach.
- Experience of multidisciplinary teamwork.
- Experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals.
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of CAMHS in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working autonomously as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience in working in developing services.
- Working knowledge of professional systems involved in community settings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of CAMHS l assessment, intervention and management in work with children and families.
- Ability to integrate CAMHS theories and outcome data with clinical practice and service provision.
- Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures and of different ages.
- Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Good skills in communicating with children, parents and colleagues.
Education and Supervision
Essential criteria
- Experience in teaching and training staff from other professional groups.
- Experience in designing, planning and undertaking clinical research/service evaluation.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision of students/assistant/ trainee clinical psychologists/ medical students.
Personal attributes & Work Related Circumstance
Essential criteria
- A commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study.
- A commitment to the inclusion of young people’s, parent/carer views in service delivery, development and design.
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
- Ability to travel across the MFT footprint.
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Colegrave
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist District Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 529 6062
- Additional information
Nicola Millard
Service Manager, South Manchester CAMHS
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