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 Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organizations, and as a locality well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are 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.
T&G CAMHS is extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. Examples include being home to the long-established Early Attachment Service (now Parent Infant Mental Health Service; PIMHS) which is a nationally recognised, specialist under 5 service. Recent investment has also supported the establishment of a highly innovative relationship-focussed and trauma-informed therapeutic service (The Family Intervention and Therapy Service; FITS) working in partnership with Children’s Social Care at all levels of the Early Help/Child in Need/ Child Protection Framework.
We are looking to recruit a band 8a (or band 7 preceptorship into 8a) Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologists into our service. This is an exciting opportunity to work in Core CAMHS, potentially across a range of pathways, supporting the development of both generic and specialist clinical psychology skills.
We would be keen to hear from applicants who would be interested in a preceptorship post starting on a band 7 with a move to 8a after a period of experience and development in the post, which is supported by a Trust-level framework and process. This would suit newly or recently qualified clinical psychologists. We would also love to hear from those looking for an 8a post as well.
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
To ensure the systematic provision of high-quality clinical psychology input to CAMHS. 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. 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.
Registration with the HCPC and previous CAMHS experience is essential for this role. The successful candidate will need to be an excellent communicator and enjoy team and multi-disciplinary working. The post potentially involves working in various locations so the ability to travel across Tameside is essential.
