Inpatient Senior CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Transformationunitgm; Salford; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working.)

Job ref: 437-7012370

Employer: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Platt Bridge Health Center/ Rainbow ward

Town: Wigan

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

The successful candidate will be joining a team who have a shared ethos of ensuring the young person is at the center of our decision making. The service has invested into ensuring that our staff team have a variety of health and wellbeing offers.
The post holder will be actively involved in the assessment and formulation for children and young people who have an Eating Disorder. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary Eating Disorder team to develop and implement care plans and risk assessments, demonstrating good communication skills with partner agencies involved in the young person’s care to enable provision of high standards of evidence-based client-centered care.

The post holder will also hold a caseload of young people within the community, providing clinical assessment and interventions to children, young people, and their families with eating disorders. The role will include direct and indirect client work as well as consultation and liaison with other professionals around the specialist clinical area of CYPMH. The post-holder will be engaged in all levels of clinical response from urgent assessments to lower priority cases. The post holder will be expected to work as a member of the CEDS service and will be expected to ensure continuing development of their own practice and to support other team members in their development as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• Under the supervision of the Children’s Eating Disorder Service (CEDS), the post holder will act as a key worker for the child or young person with Mental Health illness within Wigan, Wrightington and Leigh Trust, Rainbow Ward (WWL) with a view to improve the quality of care received by individuals with a Mental Health need in the acute children’s hospital setting (not within CAMHS inpatient facilities).
• To promote and support the use of the accessible communication methods, Communication Passport, and reasonable adjustment care planning.
• To support service delivery for Children and Young People with Mental Health (MH) needs, providing guidance, teaching, and specialist knowledge to their families/carers and to staff.
• To deliver and help the Team Lead in developing a strategy for children in hospital with MH needs using Quality Improvement to support implementation of improved care pathways.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original, and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment, and dining options.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Person specification

Nursing registration

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• NMC registered

Experience

• Experience of working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Post registration evidence of training and development in Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder

Skills

• Offer advice and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary team based on solid clinical experience of mental health nursing.
• Support the Team Managers and other Senior Practitioners / Professional Leads in the daily operation of the Teams.

Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. For further information on the checks required, please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org.

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example, BAME, Disabled, and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**