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Main area: CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service operating hours are Monday-Friday 9-5. There may be some opportunity for flexible working by discussion with the service manager)

Job ref: 349-MCH-7109972*C

Site: South Manchester CAMHS, Carol Kendrick Centre

Town: Manchester

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

Since 2018 across Greater Manchester there have been large-scale transformation plans for the Crisis Care Pathway for Children and Young People. This is a new and exciting opportunity to be instrumental in further shaping this essential offer with our collaborative and split role between the Crisis Care Service and Core Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The role aims to reflect the ethos of MFT CAMHS which is child centred, needs led, responsive, accessible and flexible. The post will be instrumental in the success and future developments of the Crisis Care Service and how it integrates with Core CAMHS to improve care for young people in mental health distress.

This pilot role will complement and synthesize the current Crisis Care Service offer of the Rapid Response, Home Intensive Treatment and Paediatric Liaison Pathways and the CAMHS Duty/SPOA Practitioner Role. The successful candidate will support both services whilst gaining valuable experience and development opportunities within the two busy services. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in this innovative project and to shape how young people experience care in crisis and beyond in core services.

We welcome applications from experienced practitioners from nursing, social work or occupational therapy disciplines who feel they can work innovatively and both collaboratively and autonomously to develop the role.

Main duties of the job

You will work directly with young people and families/carers with a range of mental health needs in multiple locations including hospital and community settings (CAMHS, schools, homes and social care placements). You will complete psychosocial and risk assessments, create care and risk management plans, to mitigate presenting mental health risk and make onward referrals to services offering the most appropriate care the child/young person requires. You will do this using identified and creative interventions to encourage and empower young people and families/carers to be involved in their care. Your care will be holistic, individualised, evidence and goal based to support positive outcomes.

The role will be Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, however the Crisis Care Services is an extended hours service, currently operating 8am-10pm, seven days a week and there may be scope to work within these timeframes. There is no current requirement to work nights.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and 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 and staff experience, operational effectiveness and 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 and 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 and 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 resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Registration

• You must be registered/accredited with a professional body: E.g., NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BACP

Qualifications

• You must have a recognised qualification. Recognised qualifications are: Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN, RNMH Social Work: CQSW/DipSW Occupational Therapy: Other relevant accreditable qualification
• Qualifications in Psychological Therapies, e.g., CBT/SFT/IPT
• Mentorship course ENB998 or equivalent

Experience

• Proven experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience of assessing and managing risk, including safeguarding
• Experience of developing and providing evidence based assessments, formulations and care plans
• Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals
• Experience of autonomously managing a caseload within a service
• Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
• Experience of working to clinical governance principles
• Experience of following organisational policies and procedures
• Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Experience of providing interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families
• Community mental health experience

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

• Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation.
• Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
• The ability to assess, formulate and manage care appropriately, ensuring discharge is timely
• The ability to use assessment tools and outcome measures effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person and family
• Ability to manage and organise own time and diary and work flexibly and creatively in a clinical context
• The ability to maintain written and electronic clinical records. IT competence.
• Knowledge and understanding of the research process

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.