Clinical Psychologist/Mental Health Practitoner

Job summary

Are you passionate about improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people? Do you thrive in a multi-agency team environment, delivering evidence-based interventions and supporting young people in complex circumstances? If so, we invite you to join the team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist within the Youth Justice Service at Salford CAMHS.

This role offers the unique opportunity to work across the Salford Youth Justice Service and the Salford Community CAMHS team, delivering high-quality, needs-led, evidence-based mental health assessments and interventions. You will manage a complex caseload, provide consultation to professionals across agencies, and ensure integrated care for children, young people, and their families.

Main duties of the job

manage a complex caseload

provide care appropriate to the child or young persons needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, providing consultation to colleagues within Youth Justice and to wider networks such as social care and, Greater Manchester Police and courts and therapeutic interventions.

develop a formulation and plan for intervention, based on an appropriate conceptual framework in collaboration with the child, young person and parents/carers, communicating this to the referrer and other relevant professionals

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want