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Principal Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 25 July 2025
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, highly specialist clinical psychologist to lead a small team within CAMHS, co-ordinate a community based mental health offer for children with significant learning disabilities and their families and support autistic children and young people with more complex mental health needs. The postholder will have significant clinical experience in this area and will have skills in consultation, training and supervision. Working together with the Strategic Lead for LDA in CAMHS, the postholder will need to work with partners in Community Health, Education and Social Care to develop the offer of support to children and young people with significant learning needs in Salford. They will have links with the local Intensive Support Team and be expected to contribute to support planning around behaviours of distress and concern. Embedded within their local CAMHS team, the postholder will also work closely with colleagues in child psychiatry.
Main duties of the job
To develop an innovative, highly specialist and targeted offer to children with disabilities and their families in Salford within the context of a comprehensive and integrated CAMHS.To contribute to strategic developments and support policy change in Salford in this area.To represent CAMHS in multiagency groups across the city relating to children with disabilities.To offer consultation and training to partner agencies.To provide supervision and line management to other clinicians within the targeted team.To deliver high quality assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities. To help co-ordinate group offers in Salford, e.g. Riding the Rapids.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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 30,000 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.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person SpecificationQualifications
- Diploma, masters, doctoral degree or equivalent accepted by the British Psychological Society as qualifying the person to work as a clinical psychologist.
- Eligibility for BPS Chartered status and HCPC registration
- Additional qualifications relating to the assessment of autism e.g. ADI, ADOS training and/or learning disability e.g. PBS coaches training, EMDR training related to children, Tree of Life or ACT therapy
Experience and knowledge
- Significant experience of working as a specialist child clinical psychologist in the field of learning disability adapting practice for this client group
- Significant experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range who have disabilities and or are autistic; including experience of managing complex cases that include safeguarding
- Significant experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for young people's psychological care and treatment independently and within a multidisciplinary and multi agency context within a paediatric setting
- Significant experience of consulting with healthcare and other professionals
- Experience of teaching and training
- Significant experience providing professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of service development and development of projects with partners in other organisations
- Experience of representing CAMHS at strategic level
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people with complex disabilities
- Experience of consultation in paediatric settings
- Experience managing clinical risk and safeguarding
- Working knowledge of national strategic agendas and legal and ethical frameworks relating to children and young with disability and/or who are autistic
- Experience as a local lead in paediatric autism/ld
- Experience of running groups
- Experience of supervising clinical psychologists
Skills
- Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload
- Ability to select, use and interpret a range of psychological measures including cognitive and developmental assessments
- Evidence of good and adapted communication skills for working with children, parents and colleagues
- Skills in being able to adapt interventions for this client group
- Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the case of highly emotive and distressing problems and the threat of verbal and physical abuse
Education and supervision
- Experience in designing, planning and undertaking clinical research and service evaluation
- Experience in teaching and training staff from other professional groups in psychological skills and concepts and areas relating to autism learning disability and paediatric practice
Other
- oFlexibility in working arrangements
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£62,215 to £72,293 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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