Non-Medical Prescriber

Manchester Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with Children, Young People and Families aged up to 18 years and who present with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.

MFT CAMHS are looking for passionate, skilled, and ambitious Non-Medical Prescriber who has extensive clinical experience and is now ready to take on role supporting patients across the Directorship (Trafford, Manchester and Salford CAMHS). This is a peripatetic position with the successful applicant working at different CAMHS services to support with prescribing, medication reviews and assessments.

We are looking for a non-medical prescriber to join our multidisciplinary CAMH's Team and work alongside a wide range of colleagues from occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, social work, CAMHS and community paediatrics.

The post holder will be joining a warm, dynamic and hardworking team who look after each other and have a range of excellent skill, knowledge and experience to share with you.

We are privileged and proud to be part of Manchester Foundation Hospitals NHS Trust under the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, the largest and best across Europe. We are committed to supporting all our staff with ongoing professional development opportunities

You must have a working knowledge of CAMHS and or adult mental health and have an understanding of assessing complex mental health needs and levels of risk, including safeguarding and self-harm.

You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation and interventions.

A considerable amount of the intervention and assessments provided by CAMH's are of Neurodevelopmental issues such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), we therefore welcome applications from those with experience in these areas.

A proportion of your working time is likely to be targeted towards these pathways alongside treatment of Mental Health Disorders via Evidence Based Practice and effective Clinical Supervision.

You must be confident and experienced in communication, due to the high level of liaison needed between CAMHS and other services.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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.