Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Interventions Lead
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This is an exciting opportunity to join Salford CAMHS, working as the Neurodevelopmental & Behavioural Interventions Lead
If you are a Clinical Psychologist or experienced Mental Health Practitioner who is looking to share your knowledge and skills working with children and families, have excellent mental health assessment and formulation skills, and can work therapeutically, we would love to hear from you.
A skilled practitioner with mental health knowledge who can work in a busy team, manage risk, and is passionate about offering intervention for children and families will thrive in this role.
Working with children and families presenting with a range of mental health challenges, you will have the 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.
Salford CAMHS delivers services in line with the Thrive framework and sees service user feedback and participation as key components of service delivery and development.
MFT CAMHS was rated Outstanding by the CQC
Responsibilities
To ensure the development, systematic provision, coordination, and evaluation of a high-quality specialist evidence-based assessment and intervention to young people referred to the team. Responsibilities may include:
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- To provide a high-quality, evidence-based specialist service to children and young people presenting with neurodevelopmental difficulties and complex behavioural needs.
- To take continuing responsibility for the management of an identified, highly complex clinical caseload.
- To provide clinical supervision around neurodevelopmental conditions and complex behavioural interventions within the team.
- To contribute to the teaching, training, and consultation on issues related to neurodevelopmental conditions and complex behavioural interventions to other professionals who work with young people.
- 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 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.
Join Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester, the largest health academic campus in Europe – a great place to shape your career.
With a workforce of over 30,000 colleagues, we work together to deliver exceptional care to more than 1 million people every year.
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At MFT, your role matters, your impact is real, and you’re part of something bigger from day one.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Caroline Davies
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: caroline.davies@mft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0161 518 5400
Contacts
- Caroline Davies - Clinical Lead/ Tai Jamil - Service Manager
- caroline.davies@mft.nhs.uk/ tayyib.jamil@mft.nhs.uk
- Michelle Perkin - Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Psychological Lead
- 0161 518 5400
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