Camhs Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago


Salford, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are seeking a nurse of any discipline, social worker, or any Allied Health Professional registered with a professional body to join our team. We are a CAMHS service covering the city of Salford. We are a friendly and dynamic team who are part of a passionate and innovative CAMHS directorate that offers services across Manchester, Salford and Trafford. Your unique skills will provide assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families with mental health needs.

You will provide a range of high quality assessments and interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, formulation and evidence based interventions.

The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver the clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines.

The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

We offer a supportive induction period and you will receive regular clinical supervision and training.

To provide high quality mental health assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families, utilising your knowledge and experience in line with evidence based practice.

To participate in a duty rota including receipt and screening of referrals, obtaining further information if needed and responding promptly to emergency requests for assessments or contact, signposting, and advice.

T o undertake assessment of children, young people including risk assessment, gathering appropriate information their family/ carers and other relevant agencies

To develop a formulation and plan for intervention with the child, young person and parents/carers. Communicate this to the referrer/other relevant professionals

To offer therapeutic, evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines.

To implement, co-ordinate and regularly review further assessment and a range of therapeutic interventions, including risk management,

To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROM)

Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of assessment and treatment

The role involves travel to other locations within MFT and within the local community.

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.

Diversity Matters

We’re looking forward to hearing from you



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