Job overview

Service/Ward/Department Summary:

Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children’s Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and as a locality well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are fully committed to supporting our staff in their development with great access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of clinical practice as part of your induction.

We are extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. This is a really exciting time to become part of our service, as we are steadily expanding our offer. As such we are delighted to be actively seeking to recruit a new clinical psychologist who will be joining our already well established, highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop. You will join a well-established team of over 10 clinical psychologists with expertise in a wide range of clinical areas in CAMHS where you will be well supported in your own development.

If you think you might be interested in this post, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to core CAMHS and specialist LD/ND CAMHS pathways. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team over time. To contribute to the provision of risk assessment and management as part of the core CAMHS duty offer. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel