Non-Medical Prescriber / Senior Practitioner - Child and Adolescent

Salford CAMHS are looking for passionate, skilled, and ambitious CAMHS practitioner who has extensive clinical experience and is qualified as, or in the process of qualifying as a Non Medical Prescriber. The service provides specialist neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people as well as treatment and support via our medication pathway.

As an NMP and neurodevelopmental practitioner you will need to be experienced working with children and young people who have a diagnosis or are being assessed for neurodevelopmental conditions. You will contribute to the post diagnostic support needed and offer signposting and consultation and training as appropriate.

The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary CAMH's Team in Salford and work alongside a wide range of colleagues from nursing, speech and language therapy, social work and psychology. They 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.

Dependent upon experience and interests the post holder will be supported to develop a job plan which will allow for development of prescribing skills alongside generic CAMHS assessments, formulation building and therapeutic interventions. We offer excellent training opportunities and regular supervision.

Main duties of the job

You will offer assessment for complex mental health needs and levels of risk, including safeguarding and self-harm.

You will offer prescribing clinics, involving initiation and titration dependent upon qualifications and experience and alongside colleagues in the multi disciplinary in the team. You will be responsible for delivering evidence based and medication interventions in line with national guidance and care pathways.

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.

You must be confident and experienced in communication, due to the high level of liaison needed between CAMHS and other services and be willing to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the young people.

You will provide therapeutic intervention for children, young people and their families.

You will offer consultation for schools and partner agencies.

You will provide advice via an allocated duty slot within the service.

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.