Senior CAMHS Practitioner Youth Justice

Job summary

The post holder will work within Manchester Youth Justice Service as a CAMHS clinician. Successful candidate is required to manage a caseload and provide a range of high quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, providing consultation to colleague's within Youth Justice and to wider networks such as social care and, Greater Manchester Police and courts. The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver care in a multi-agency team setting and receive clinical supervision from the CAMHS youth justice clinical lead, management supervision from the CSU Director, and peer supervision with the team.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Duties:

1. To work autonomously undertaking assessment of referrals from Manchester youth justice service. Gathering of appropriate information from the child, their family and from other relevant agencies.
2. Following assessment, to develop a formulation and plan for intervention, negotiating this with the patient and parents and communicating this to the referrer and other relevant professionals.
3. To implement and manage further assessment and intervention utilising the skills and expertise of the multi disciplinary team, and other agencies where appropriate.
4. To manage your own case load within the YJ team, effectively managing your own capacity.

1. To actively participate in clinical supervision.
2. To attend and contribute to multi disciplinary team meetings and multi agency meetings.

1. To provide consultation and liaison with other professionals working in other Children's Social care and Health services

1. To work from a multi agency perspective in liaison with other professionals

1. To attend and contribute to professional meetings within YJ and Core CAMHS as required
2. To keep accurate, timely and thorough records of care provided to all patients, including the compilation of appropriate statistics.
3. To provide written reports as required and within timescale
4. To be responsible for the management of agreed tasks in relation to specific services/resources within the Department to ensure the efficient and safe running of that aspect of the service.

About us

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.