We are delighted to offer two part-time posts (0.5 WTE), across two specialist services with an established partnership - for either post individually or combined for a fixed term of one year covering maternity leave. We welcome applications from experienced and newly qualified Clinical Psychologists and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists who are passionate about supporting babies, children, young people and families who have experienced trauma. We are looking for reflective practitioners who value meaningful relationships, working collaboratively, and share our commitment to kindness, inclusion and high-quality care.
The posts are across our specialist Family Intervention and Therapy Service (FITS) within Tameside and Glossop CAMHS, operating in close partnership with Children’s Social Care, and our Tameside and Glossop Parent Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS). We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace and particularly welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and with a range of experiences.
Within PIMHS, you will be part of a specialist service (formerly the Early Attachment Service) helping parents build healthy relationships with their babies and young children from pregnancy up to age five. Within FITS, you will be an integral part of a team delivering trauma-responsive intervention for local families via professional consultation, training, reflective practice, and therapeutic pathways.
Post 1: Parent Infant Mental Health Service
As a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist or Psychotherapist, you will contribute to the delivery and development of the service alongside an experienced, skilled and passionate multidisciplinary team. You will work with infants, young children and their families from a wide range of backgrounds, providing specialist support where there has been early adversity or trauma, while also strengthening our close partnerships. You will have opportunities to further develop your skills in parent-infant mental health assessment, formulation and intervention through a range of training and professional development opportunities. You will provide a formulation-led service for families from conception to age five, delivering specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions. You will also support the wider workforce through consultation, training and supervision, helping to promote understanding of infant and early years mental health across the system.
Post 2: Family Intervention and Therapy Service (FITS)
You will be an integral part of a team delivering trauma-responsive intervention for local families via professional consultation, training, reflective practice, and therapeutic pathways. Working alongside other practitioners, you will facilitate multiagency consultation, develop and deliver training and implement multi-level therapeutic intervention for children and families in contact with Local Authority Children’s Services.
Tameside and Glossop CAMHS 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 and the VCSE Sector and is striving to fully align to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of psychological practice.
As a Trust, 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.
The Parent Infant Mental Health Service aims to support parents and carers and your baby/young child to feel safe and secure, to manage the emotional demands of infancy and new parenthood, and to build positive relationships. PIMHS have led the borough in developing integrated perinatal and parent–infant mental health services for parents and children under five and have received wide recognition for good practice and forward thinking from other professionals and services around the country.
The FITS clinical team comprised of mental health professionals, will work in partnership with the Family Intervention Service of Children’s Social Care, while also maintaining strong links with core CAMHS. The aim is to ensure timely access to training, consultation, supervision, and intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma-responsive practice and supporting healthy relationships within our Tameside families.
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential and desirable criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
