CAMHS Senior MHP; Psychological Therapist - CBT

Bury CAMHS has an opportunity for a permitted contract for 24 hours per week Band 7 CAMHS Senior MHP (Psychological Therapist - CBT) .

The successful candidate will be able to work effectively in senior clinical leadership position, have excellent communication skills, welcome a challenge and have a real desire to make a difference to the care we provide to the child and adolescent age group inclusive of evolving models of care and modernisation of mental health services.

You should be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and have a flexible approach.

You must have experience of working and delivering CBT to a wide range of clinical presentations including working in the field and child and adolescent mental health. Your main responsibility will be for developing and leading specific treatment pathways, providing mental health assessments and a wide range of psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents and families using evidence based interventions.

You will also provide professional clinical supervision and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other practitioners who provide psychologically based care and treatment and contribute to the leadership of the service under the direction of the operational manager and clinical lead.

The CAMHS Care Hub within Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has an active and innovative staff development strategy. Working for CAMHS within the trust means that you will access to in house training, such as shadowing staff across different care pathways, accessing training around different evidence based psychological approaches and having opportunities to further your own training needs through a robust CPD policy.

Support with accessing trust wide training for managers, including accessing complaints training, interviewing and recruiting staff training and clinical supervision training.

We have a robust supervision policy which ensures that clinical and managerial supervision are delivered by different people for each clinician and we also provide specialist clinical supervision where necessary in order for people to maintain or work towards accreditation in therapeutic modalities where their role requires it.

We are committed to ensuring the psychological wellbeing of our staff as well as our patients and as such have a staff wellbeing strategy in place across the CAMHS Care hub;
Bury CAMHS have developed a staff wellbeing plan by staff and for staff working in the team.