Clinical Psychologist

Do you have a passion and enthusiasm for supporting young people to improve their mental health and reach their potential?, Central Manchester CAMHS have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our Partnership team offering mental health support to children and young people up to 18 years. Newly qualified Clinical Psychologists will be well supported via supervision, CPD and opportunities to train and develop within a team that highly values psychological formulation and evidence based interventions. Working with children and families presenting with a range of mental health challenges, you will have opportunity to develop core clinical skills in assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation and supervision of others. We offer a robust supervision and development structure in terms of psychological therapies training within the Trust and across Greater Manchester to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs. Clinical psychology is well integrated and valued both within the team and within the wider MFT CAMHS directorate under the Director of Psychological Services. Central Manchester CAMHS delivers services in line with the Thrive framework and sees service user feedback and participation as key components of service delivery and development., To ensure the development, systematic provision, coordination and evaluation of a high-quality specialist psychology assessment and intervention to young people referred to the team. Responsibilities may include:

• Assessment and intervention with children, teenagers, young adults, and families
• Work with schools, colleges and other community-based professionals working with children, teenagers, and young adults.
• Consultation, support, and provision of psychological advice
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
• Staff training
• Liaison and effective teamwork will be required with staff from wider health, community, and education as appropriate
• Support the development of an evidence base for relevant conditions and outcomes affecting patients treated with our services.
We are keen to promote innovative practice, as well as traditional individual psychological assessment and intervention.

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.