Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist/Psychological Therapist/Senior CAMHS Practitioner
Closed for applications on: 17-Apr-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Apr-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Harrington Building (Oxford Road Site)
- Address
- Hathersage Road
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Paediatric Psychosocial Service
Job overview
This post provides an exciting opportunity to join a large and established team in the RMCH Paediatric Psychosocial Service and with the support of senior colleagues, continue the development of a service into a new clinical area within the St Mary’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Paediatric Psychosocial Services are well regarded in the Trust and close relationships exist with our colleagues in paediatric, neonatal (and indeed adult) medical specialties. The service also sits within a wider CAMHS Division within the acute Trust and so is well supported and connected with other children’s mental health services across Manchester, Salford and Trafford. We are keen to promote innovative practice, as well as specialist psychological assessment and intervention. Across the service we work with hospital inpatients and outpatients, with face-to-face as well as online/virtual modalities. We offer patient groups, consultation groups and psychosocial forums with other medical specialties, we actively contribute to the wider Trust Schwartz Round programme and support a range of therapeutic intervention modalities, including neuropsychology, family therapy, ACT, CFT, Narrative, CBT, psychotherapeutic approaches and parent-infant work.
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We are a committed research service with our team contributing to a wide range of research projects and host some of our own too. Continuing professional development and further training is supported and encouraged at this grade in association with the appraisal process.
The post is open to applicants at band 7 or 8a (please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information).
Whilst it is a 12 month fixed term post, permanent positions are regularly available within our wider service, for candidates who find that they wish to pursue a career in this field.
To be considered for this role, you'll need:
- An accredited post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Post-qualification experience of working within the fields of neonatal, Paediatric, adolescent or adult health psychology
Working for our organisation
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.
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!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant and demonstrable experience of providing evidenced based assessments, formulations and treatment packages to children, young people and families.
- Experience of working within specialist paediatric services.
- 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 multidisciplinary teamwork.
Registration/ Accreditation
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social Work (CQSW/DipSW), Occupational Therapy Or Registered with a professional body. e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP Or Recognised qualification in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy as recognised by the association of Child Psychotherapists
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Gaskell
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 701 1043
- Additional information
Catherine Taylor
Principal Clinical Psychologist
No longer accepting applications
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